Instead of ag-gag laws, we need laws that impose basic standards on farm conditions and guarantee our right to know how our food is being produced.
The only way to stop participating in this dreadful and painful business of factory food production is not just to enact "laws that impose basic standards on farm conditions," but also to become a vegetarian.
Taking on the issue of cabdriver attire may be an ambitious task for a city agency that still struggles to meaningfully impose basic, arguably more pressing rules of the road: keep to the speed limit; hang up that cellphone.
Until now, Charles de Gaulle had "always invested in the hardware but not sufficiently in the software — like politeness, good signage, imposing basic standards for the level of spoken English," said one European airport consultant who spoke on the condition of anonymity because Aéroports de Paris was a client.
Until now, Charles de Gaulle "has always invested in the hardware but not sufficiently in the software -- like politeness, good signage, imposing basic standards for the level of spoken English," said one European airport consultant who asked not to be named because A ports de Paris was a client.
Yet despite the shark's keystone role in marine ecosystems, international efforts to protect them have largely failed, according to the United Nations FAOO committee on fisheries: Ten years since adoption of the Shark International Plan of Action (IPOA), most fishing nations have not completed national plans of action or imposed basic fishing limits for these particularly slow growing animals.
But I do know one thing for sure: not one of those tasks can be performed without imposing basic order and discipline in this country, without strengthening the vertical chain," he told the assembled parliamentarians.
The adoption of the strategy also reflects the view that the coercively imposed basic structure of society including its political constitution must be acceptable to all reasonable persons in a diverse society in which reasonable people disagree widely in their comprehensive conceptions of the right and the good.
Coding of all kinds, whether it's a cryptographic language, a body of laws or a bunch of computer instructions, imposes a basic logic and order.
It would impose a basic three-minute rule.
