This would cause many problems in the US's export trade (or is he lobbying on behalf of US food producers who are trying to restrict imports into the US).
I did a survey of the impact of international trade in various countries as a percentage of GDP. The metric that I used was (((imports + exports)/2) / GDP) * 100. The results were: US - 12.1% UK - 22.9% Germany - 39.6% India - 22.1% China - 22.3% This shows how isolationist the US economy is. -----Original Message----- From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of c...@traditio.com Sent: 23 January 2014 19:50 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53520] ANTI-METRIC ALERT: FDA MAY BE REMOVING GRAMS FROM NUTRITION LABELS, ADDING TEASPOONS This is an issue that our USMA officers should jump upon to monitor carefully monitor and to intervene with the FDA: the FDA is considering revising the Nutrition Fact Labels on all food products. A Washington Post article (www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/fda-to-revise-nutrition-facts-label/2 014/01/23/29e06204-8453-11e3-a273-6ffd9cf9f4ba_story.html) indicates that: 1) Grams may be removed as a unit. 2) Serving sizes now given in grams may be replaced by the flawed "teaspoon" that Paul Trusten as so often warned us against. Both of these flawed anti-metric ideas are being promoted by someone named Michael Jacobson, who claims to run some group called Science in the Public Interest. This Jacobson and his organization should be checked out and educated in a personal conference by one of our officers. Often these civic-sounding groups are fronts for another agenda (anti-metric?). Science in the public interest is to use metric! This might be a good opportunity to Lorelle Young or Paul Trusten (whom I have copied in to this message) to get an education article in The Washington Post. The Nutrition Facts Labels are seen by hundreds of million. To lose this pro-metric tool would be horrible. Martin Morrison USMA Today "Metric Training and Education" Columnist
