[DRAFT] International Chocolate Day

[0cala]

The General Assembly,

Noting the importance of chocolate as:

• a sweet treat - whether eaten, drunken or included in ice cream - to children and adults across the world,
• part of the cultural heritage of indigenous tribes in member states where chocolate is produced, and
• the crop that provides a decent life for cacao bean farmers, without which they would have nothing to farm and no way to make a living, and

Believing that chocolate is therefore of sufficient international gravity to warrant serious international recognition,

Hereby:

1. Pronounces that International Chocolate Day, to recognise the importance of chocolate to the above groups and others not specified, shall be commemorated by the World Assembly and its member states on November 23rd (or the equivalent date) every year, and
2. Requires that member states promote the consumption of chocolate, where appropriate, while discouraging their citizens from unnecessary chocolate wastage.

Co-author: Tinhampton

The World Assembly,

Chocolate has been around for centuries and is still popular to this day, many children’s candy and ice-cream have the common chocolate flavor added to the ingredients.

NOTING Chocolate to be an old ingredient when dealing with candy and sugary snacks.

ADMIRING Chocolate for the reason of it being one of the most iconic and delicious foods on the globe to this day.

ALSO NOTING its sister flavors, Vanilla and Strawberry to also be an iconic flavor and primary flavors when it comes to selling products that deal with chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry.

ACKNOWLEDGING the ancient tribes who found and made chocolate from the cocoa beans which dwell in their area.

Therefore thus be enacted:

I. An international chocolate day specifically around the concept of chocolate and how it changed the world by being an iconic and recognizable flavor to children and adults
II. Marking November 23rd to be international chocolate day.
III. Recognition of chocolate around the globe and punishing those that waste bits of chocolate by giving warnings, jail time, etc.

i'll take suggestions and advice that actually help me.

The World Assembly,

Chocolate has been around for centuries and is still popular to this day, many children’s candy and ice-cream have the common chocolate flavor added to the ingredients.

NOTING Chocolate to be an old ingredient when dealing with candy and sugary snacks.

ADMIRING Chocolate for the reason of it being one of the most iconic and delicious foods on the globe to this day.

ALSO NOTING its sister flavors, Vanilla and Strawberry to also be an iconic flavor and primary flavors when it comes to selling products that deal with chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry.

ACKNOWLEDGING the ancient tribes who found and made chocolate from the cocoa beans which dwell in their area.

Therefore thus be enacted:

I. An international chocolate day specifically around the concept of chocolate and how it changed the world by being an iconic and recognizable flavor to children and adults
II. Marking September 13 to be international chocolate day.
III. Recognition of chocolate around the globe and punishing those that waste bits of chocolate by giving warnings.

[Tinhampton]

Was September 13th a randomly-chosen date or just a copy of IRL?

Is there a reason why we have to package this with the rather incredible and little-defined crime of "wasting bits of chocolate?"

[0cala]

Was September 13th a randomly-chosen date or just a copy of IRL?

It was a IRL thing, but i plan on changing the date later

Is there a reason why we have to package this with the rather incredible and little-defined crime of "wasting bits of chocolate?"

wasting chocolate is bad :d

[The Rickpublic]

"ALSO NOTING its sister flavors, Vanilla and Strawberry to also be an iconic flavor and primary flavors when it comes to selling products that deal with chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry."

By also noting, does that imply to celebrate these flavors as well, if so that is very broad and if you are celebrating all 3 flavors i feel like international Neapolitan Day could be a more fitting name

if this gets to voting i will vote in favor of chocolate day

[Alto Mare]

"ALSO NOTING its sister flavors, Vanilla and Strawberry to also be an iconic flavor and primary flavors when it comes to selling products that deal with chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry."

By also noting, does that imply to celebrate these flavors as well, if so that is very broad and if you are celebrating all 3 flavors i feel like international Neapolitan Day could be a more fitting name


if this gets to voting i will vote in favor of chocolate day

a date that could be used for this chocolate day would be the founding day of Wonka's Industries, November 23, 1964,
Willy and Charlie would be happy

[0cala]

"ALSO NOTING its sister flavors, Vanilla and Strawberry to also be an iconic flavor and primary flavors when it comes to selling products that deal with chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry."

By also noting, does that imply to celebrate these flavors as well, if so that is very broad and if you are celebrating all 3 flavors i feel like international Neapolitan Day could be a more fitting name


if this gets to voting i will vote in favor of chocolate day

a date that could be used for this chocolate day would be the founding day of Wonka's Industries, November 23, 1964,
Willy and Charlie would be happy

Changed

[Alto Mare]

a date that could be used for this chocolate day would be the founding day of Wonka's Industries, November 23, 1964,
Willy and Charlie would be happy

Changed

An idea, it can only be considered chocolate, all sweets made up of 50% pure cocoa mixed with milk, and pure chocolate called dark chocolate made up of 70% pure.

[Umatto]

It sounds good but I only have one problem that will make me vote AGAINST it if at vote. The thing that bothers me is the fact that you mentioned that anyone that wastes bits of chocolate (by bits you refer to small quantities) they get to jail. Imagine having a expired, chocolate, throwing it out and then police sends you to jail. Aslo, how are the WA countries going to enforce this? How will YOU, for example, find people that threw bits of chocolate? CCTV cameras, you might say, but then you enter into the bigger issue of if CCTV cameras should be implemented. In short, mentioning this enters into bigger issue and sounds unjust in general

[Floofybit]

For under all circumstances

[Alto Mare]

It sounds good but I only have one problem that will make me vote AGAINST it if at vote. The thing that bothers me is the fact that you mentioned that anyone that wastes bits of chocolate (by bits you refer to small quantities) they get to jail. Imagine having a expired, chocolate, throwing it out and then police sends you to jail. Aslo, how are the WA countries going to enforce this? How will YOU, for example, find people that threw bits of chocolate? CCTV cameras, you might say, but then you enter into the bigger issue of if CCTV cameras should be implemented. In short, mentioning this enters into bigger issue and sounds unjust in general

I agree that wasting chocolate should have a punishment, however, imprisonment for waste is something unusual, and if an awareness campaign were created to avoid wasting and donating chocolate, which is almost due

[0cala]

I have removed the jail time part.

[New Texas Republic]

How is wasting chocolate worthy of being considered a crime? I find that pointless.

[0cala]

How is wasting chocolate worthy of being considered a crime? I find that pointless.

I might remove that part later.

[New Texas Republic]

How is wasting chocolate worthy of being considered a crime? I find that pointless.

I might remove that part later.

Alrighty.

[Herby]

EWWWWWwwwwww! You got any idea what happens in an internal combustion engine if you put chocolate in it? Violently opposed. Now if you was ta write somethin’ like International Ethanol Day well yeah we’d definitely go for that one.

[0cala]

Might submit November 23rd.

[Republic of Mesque]

Support.

[Tinhampton]

Again.

The General Assembly,

Noting the importance of chocolate as:

• a sweet treat - whether eaten, drunken or included in ice cream - to children and adults across the world,
• part of the cultural heritage of indigenous tribes in member states where chocolate is produced, and
• the crop that provides a decent life for cacao bean farmers, without which they would have nothing to farm and no way to make a living, and

Believing that chocolate is therefore of sufficient international gravity to warrant serious international recognition,

Hereby:

1. Pronounces that International Chocolate Day, to recognise the importance of chocolate to the above groups and others not specified, shall be commemorated by the World Assembly and its member states on November 23rd (or the equivalent date) every year, and
2. Requires that member states promote the consumption of chocolate, where appropriate, while discouraging their citizens from unnecessary chocolate wastage.

Co-author: Tinhampton

[Juansonia]

"Opposed. If anything, the World Assembly has actively rejected the notion of a 'universal calendar', and I would recommend that we don't force the gnomes to convert between countless measurement systems - not to mention the non-linearity of timeflow between various parts of the multiverse - to celebrate a holiday that exists primarily to fill trivia books."

- LTC Maria-Fernanda Novo, WA Ambassador for the Armed Republic of Juansonia.

[0cala]

Submitting after 1:15pm

[Astrobolt]

Tappe: “Our government opposes this bill which was clearly written with the support of the chocolate lobby. We furiously oppose any attempt to force our nation to encourage the consumption of this food while ignoring all the other sweets available.”

OOC: This isn’t really an international issue, and seems to be kind of boring, I don’t see why this should pass.

[Kenmoria]

(OOC: Unless the chocolate is intoxicated by alcohol, it is “drunk” not “drunken”, in the first preambulatory clause.)

[Imperium Anglorum]

Tappe: “Our government opposes this bill which was clearly written with the support of the chocolate lobby. We furiously oppose any attempt to force our nation to encourage the consumption of this food while ignoring all the other sweets available.”

OOC: This isn’t really an international issue, and seems to be kind of boring, I don’t see why this should pass.

Ditto, more or less both in-character and out-of-character.

[Wallenburg]

"I don't see where tribes enter into the history of chocolate. Sure, in my own history, the Arabusene tribe kept chocolate a closely-guarded secret and only exported it in small quantities as a luxury good, but they were decidedly not indigenous: they are from an entirely alien world. In other histories, whole nations freely cultivated chocolate across any tribal distinctions, if they had any. This inclusion is quite puzzling in an otherwise narrowly focused proposal.

"Oh, also, it should have been rather immediately obvious that the people of many member states cannot digest lactose. That and many other dietary restrictions may render chocolate unsuitable, immoral, or even poisonous as a food item in many member states. This Assembly's most honored Ambassador Herby herself has rather plainly laid out her own incompatibility with chocolate consumption, a trait shared by her fellow Herbys. Requiring that member states exhaust resources promoting this single food is unconscionable."

[Archangelis]

I can't say that I really care for this proposal. It does not seem there was a lot of effort put into it at all. The lack of category, etc. makes me wary of how this will actually affect Member States. Additionally, November 23rd is a very specific date and probably does not apply to Member States that don't use the Gregorian calendar or have calendars based on the rotation of Earth around Sol. In some cases, there probably is not an equivalent. Your proposal also doesn't argue why Chocolate Day itself is necessary, as opposed to other types of legislation that would probably be more effective.