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[DRAFT] Nutritional Standards Act

Postby Cosmosplosion » Sat Mar 09, 2019 1:52 am

Nutritional Standards Act - Category: Regulation - AOE: Consumer Protection

Believing that the health of minors is of the utmost importance, seeing as in this stage the most important steps in a beings development occur;

Further believing that in many cases, it is cheaper to provide products with a lesser nutritional value and this hinders the development of various species;

Assuming that it would be beneficial to all species to have a healthier populace;

Defines ‘consumables’ as any product intended to be eaten, drank, or otherwise, that provides nutritional value of some kind to the species upon use;

Defines ‘nutritional value’ as the benefit a consumable has on the development of, and continued health, of the being consuming it. A consumable high in nutritional value contains substances dependent on the species which are beneficial in development and in long term health, and a consumable low in nutritional value contains substances dependent on the species which are not beneficial to development or long-term health;

This World Assembly Hereby:

  • Mandates that minors be educated thoroughly on the nutritional value of consumables that are commonplace in their nation. This education must include information pertinent to the nutritional needs of the species being taught;

  • Requires that, in the event a consumable which is commonplace in a nation and that consumable has a similar alternative which is greater in nutritional value, that consumable must be presented as a possible substitute during the education mentioned in the previous clause;

  • Demands that member nations educate all residents, regardless of whether or not they are in school, on the long term effects of poor nutritional habits, by funding informational campaigns encouraging them to use healthier consumables and to replace consumables low in nutritional value with consumables high in nutritional value.

  • Further requires that schools of any level must provide consumables of equal nutritional value to the amount of time students are required to be within school. Schools may charge a reasonable and affordable monetary fee for these consumables. In the event a student’s parents income is among the poorest ten percent in that nation, the meal must be provided at no cost. In nations lacking a monetary system or nations where income-inequality is essentially nonexistent, this clause does not apply;

  • Schools, when required to provide meals, must give adequate time for students to consume them;

  • Meals provided by schools must be high in nutritional value;

  • Mandates that schools provide recreational activities related to physical fitness to students, either during or after school. Schools may charge a reasonable and affordable monetary fee for these recreational activities. In the event a student’s parents income is among the poorest ten percent in that nation, the meal must be provided at no cost. In nations lacking a monetary system or nations where income inequality is essentially nonexistent, this clause does not apply;

  • Further mandates that, when a consumable item is sold, it is labelled with all nutritional information pertinent to the species it is being sold to, and in member nations with multiple species, this nutritional information must be pertinent to each species individually;

  • These labels must not be purposely obstructed, concealed, or positioned in such a way as to make the labels unintelligible or imperceptible to intended users;

  • Encourages member nations to take further action to encourage healthy nutrition habits;
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Postby Kenmoria » Sat Mar 09, 2019 4:48 am

“This is unacceptably restrictive on private schools, who may have their own curriculums and choice of subjects offered to students. For example, some schools teach only the humanities as well as maths and English or French as subjects, meaning that there is no place for the education on nutritional values.”
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Postby Separatist Peoples » Sat Mar 09, 2019 5:44 am

"Hard pass. International curriculums sound awful."

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Postby Maowi » Sat Mar 09, 2019 6:13 am

"We agree with the ambassadors from Kenmoria and Separatist Peoples. It seems impossibly difficult to define blanket curriculum regulations which don't cause problems for any nation, although the writing, for such a complicated topic, seems pretty good."

OOC: Just a couple of things I noticed:

Cosmosplosion wrote:Defines a ‘consumable’ as any product intended to be eaten, drunk, or otherwise, that provides nutritional value of some kind to the species upon use;


Maybe make sure the definition is consistently singular or plural. Also, otherwise what? Otherwise is an adverb and there's no verb. Possibly it would be more concise as 'any product that provides nutritional value of some kind to the species upon consumption'? I feel like you don't need to define consumption, although I might be wrong about that.

  • Requires that, in the event a consumable which is commonplace in a nation [removed a phrase] has a similar alternative which is greater in nutritional value, that consumable must be presented as a possible substitute during the education mentioned in the previous clause;


Probably flows more nicely and is better grammatically like this.

  • Further requires that schools of any level must provide consumables of equal nutritional value to the amount of time students are required to be within school. Schools may charge a reasonable and affordable monetary fee for these consumables. In the event a student’s parents income is among the poorest ten percent in that nation, the meal must be provided at no cost. In nations lacking a monetary system or nations where income-inequality is essentially nonexistent, this clause does not apply;


What do you mean by the bit in bold? This could be me just being obtuse.

  • Meals provided by schools must be high in nutritional value;


How high?

  • Mandates that schools provide recreational activities related to physical fitness to students, either during or after school. Schools may charge a reasonable and affordable monetary fee for these recreational activities. In the event a student’s parents' income is among the poorest ten percent in that nation, the activities must be provided at no cost. In nations lacking a monetary system or nations where income inequality is essentially nonexistent, this clause does not apply;


Just grammar and typos I think...

  • Encourages member nations to take further action to encourage healthy nutrition habits.


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Postby Separatist Peoples » Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:16 am

Ooc: this is a category violation.

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Postby Greater vakolicci haven » Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:37 am

Is this an international issue? I think not.

Separatist Peoples wrote:Ooc: this is a category violation.

It appears to be a case of category crossover, including consumer protection as well as health aspects.
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Postby Hatzisland » Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:40 am

At this point, opposed. We have every right to give students good food, and also shouldn't have to pour billions into sending every resident(which should be changed to citizen anyway) back to school to learn what's healthy and what's not. Change that, and we could support.

OOC: "Mandates that schools provide recreational activities related to physical fitness to students, either during or after school. Schools may charge a reasonable and affordable monetary fee for these recreational activities. In the event a student’s parents income is among the poorest ten percent in that nation, the meal must be provided at no cost. In nations lacking a monetary system or nations where income inequality is essentially nonexistent, this clause does not apply..."

The meal must be provided at no cost? I think you mean activity.

Also, I do actually think this should be addressed on the international stage. I just disagree with the contents of the proposal.

Edit: Also, I've heard compelling arguments to exclude private school's from this proposal. Add that to the list of changes I want.
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Separatist Peoples wrote:Ooc: this is a category violation.
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Postby Araraukar » Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:48 pm

Hatzisland wrote:OOC: The meal must be provided at no cost? I think you mean activity.

OOC: School kids have to pay for their meals where you live? :blink:
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Postby Iciaros » Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:08 pm

Araraukar wrote:OOC: School kids have to pay for their meals where you live? :blink:


(OOC: Where I live, kids past kindergarten do actually have to pay for their own meals, though students from low-income families can apply for financial assistance and get meal coupons (among, obviously, other things like subsidised school fees). I was lucky enough to have enough money to get food regularly, but I don't imagine it was very nice for the people who fell just outside the maximum income to qualify for financial assistance.)
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Postby Araraukar » Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:55 am

Iciaros wrote:
Araraukar wrote:OOC: School kids have to pay for their meals where you live? :blink:

(OOC: Where I live, kids past kindergarten do actually have to pay for their own meals, though students from low-income families can apply for financial assistance and get meal coupons (among, obviously, other things like subsidised school fees). I was lucky enough to have enough money to get food regularly, but I don't imagine it was very nice for the people who fell just outside the maximum income to qualify for financial assistance.)

OOC: Over here all school kids from kindergarten/daycare to the end of secondary schooling (vocational training or what in USA system would be up to the first one or two years of college - preparing for university academic thing anyway) get one good meal (salad, a main course with meat/fish/veggie protein, bread with margarine/butter and milk/juice/water), and I think these days a breakfast (bread with cheese and milk/juice/water and porridge being available) as well. Schools usually sell off the extra food as low-cost meals after everyone in the school has eaten (and yes, kids can go ask for more, and also the drinks are freely available) to ensure as little food is wasted as possible. Oh yeah, and some foods get a dessert. Ice cream goes with peasoup for some reason. I forget what waffles and strawberry jam were with, but some actual foods also have jam (lingonberry/black currant) to go with. And ketchup, mustard and salt are available to add at will.

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Postby Hatzisland » Mon Mar 11, 2019 2:44 pm

Araraukar wrote:
Hatzisland wrote:OOC: The meal must be provided at no cost? I think you mean activity.

OOC: School kids have to pay for their meals where you live? :blink:


OOC: No. They have free or reduced lunch for some. I was speaking about Clause 7, speaking on recreational activities.(Mandates that schools provide recreational activities related to physical fitness to students, either during or after school. Schools may charge a reasonable and affordable monetary fee for these recreational activities. In the event a student’s parents income is among the poorest ten percent in that nation, the meal must be provided at no cost. In nations lacking a monetary system or nations where income inequality is essentially nonexistent, this clause does not apply;)

I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. And also, it's been a couple days since I posted this, and the proposal still has not been edited. They need on get on that!
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Postby Hatzisland » Mon Mar 11, 2019 2:46 pm

Araraukar wrote:
Iciaros wrote:
(OOC: Where I live, kids past kindergarten do actually have to pay for their own meals, though students from low-income families can apply for financial assistance and get meal coupons (among, obviously, other things like subsidised school fees). I was lucky enough to have enough money to get food regularly, but I don't imagine it was very nice for the people who fell just outside the maximum income to qualify for financial assistance.)

OOC: Over here all school kids from kindergarten/daycare to the end of secondary schooling (vocational training or what in USA system would be up to the first one or two years of college - preparing for university academic thing anyway) get one good meal (salad, a main course with meat/fish/veggie protein, bread with margarine/butter and milk/juice/water), and I think these days a breakfast (bread with cheese and milk/juice/water and porridge being available) as well. Schools usually sell off the extra food as low-cost meals after everyone in the school has eaten (and yes, kids can go ask for more, and also the drinks are freely available) to ensure as little food is wasted as possible. Oh yeah, and some foods get a dessert. Ice cream goes with peasoup for some reason. I forget what waffles and strawberry jam were with, but some actual foods also have jam (lingonberry/black currant) to go with. And ketchup, mustard and salt are available to add at will.

This is my normal.


OOC: That's your normal? Wow!
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Postby Marxist Germany » Mon Mar 11, 2019 3:19 pm

OOC:This is literally the definition of micromanagement
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OOC: You should probably put the clauses starting with 'Defines' after the 'hereby'.
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Postby Hatzisland » Mon Mar 11, 2019 3:30 pm

The New Nordic Union wrote:OOC: You should probably put the clauses starting with 'Defines' after the 'hereby'.


OOC: Add that to list. The author has made zero changes since its proposal.

Marxist Germany wrote:OOC:This is literally the definition of micromanagement


OOC: Not really. The WA can set some standards for school lunches. I am still opposed at this point, and the think some restrictions should be lightened, but this doesn't mean the WA should avoid the whole issue.
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