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OOC: This inspiration for this draft was not Animal Rebellion's recent McBlockade but a poll carried out for the Independent Women's Forum in 2013 which found that 65% of American women opposed "the government regulating the consumption habits of Americans, such as limiting how much salt, sugar, or fatty foods consumers can buy at a store or restaurant."
Nutritional Freedom Compact
A resolution to develop industry around the world.Category: Advancement of IndustryArea of Effect: Commerical EnterpriseProposed by: Tinhampton
Aware that individuals of many species require nutrition to survive, especially through the consumption of food and drink,
Recognising that many such individuals often acquire such nutrition through businesses such as supermarkets and restaurants, rather than (for instance) hunting or foraging for it, and
Believing that individuals, especially those with dietary needs, should not be unfairly disadvantaged by red tape which arbitrarily restricts what food and drink they can or cannot order from businesses...
The General Assembly hereby:
- defines, for the purposes of this resolution:
- a "compliant foodstuff," henceforth a CF, as any food or drink sold or provided in a given member state which fulfils all food safety standards which have been laid by the World Assembly or by that member state and which are equally applicable to all food or all drink as appropriate at the point of sale or provision,
- an "age-restricted CF" as any foodstuff subject to Article c,
- a "store" as any entity in a member state which sells or provides any good or service, and
- "relevant criteria," in relation to any given CF, as that CF's nutritional content and the nature or identity of whoever sells, provides, produces or supplies that CF,
- prohibits member states and their political subdivisions from:
- requiring stores to offer or refrain from offering any given CF for sale or provision, except as provided in Article e(i); whether or not to offer any CF shall be the exclusive decision of each store,
- restricting the supply of any CF to stores in a manner not permitted by prior and standing international law,
- restricting the purchase of any CF, except to prevent shortages of the targeted CFs during times of national emergency (where those foodstuffs are necessary for sapient life) or otherwise as provided in Article c,
- restricting any deliveries of non-age-restricted CFs made by an individual who has ordered such CFs with the intention that they be consumed at any private residence where that individual is currently residing, including by permitting their confiscation,
- restricting or preventing the advertisement of any CF simply because of any of that CF's relevant criteria, subject to Article c (although members may still restrict or prevent advertisements that make demonstrably false claims about that CF's relevant criteria),
- making access to any government service conditional upon purchasing, not purchasing, consuming, or not consuming any CF with any frequency, and from
- regulating the free and voluntary consumption of any non-age-restricted CF in private residences,
- reaffirms the rights of members to impose a sensible minimum age for purchasing particular CFs, including those items which can seriously harm the health of those consuming it below that age, and to prevent the advertisement of those CFs to individuals below that age,
- urges stores not to sell or provide age-restricted CFs where they cannot generally be legally purchased by their target audience (i.e. school canteens refraining from selling alcoholic drinks to pupils), and
- clarifies that nothing in this resolution prevents members from:
- requiring all stores wishing to sell alcoholic drinks to hold a license to enable them to do so,
- outlawing the advertisement of all CFs, nor from
- imposing restrictions on advertisements of CFs that apply equally to all such advertisements.