I just used their comment form to send the following message: <start of message>
The idea of showing the nutrition information in other than grams is just plain ridiculous. The United States should catch up with the rest of the world and use metric labeling throughout. Note that metric and metric standards are already in use in the following areas: soft drinks (large containers of 500 mL, 2 L, etc.), wine and liquor industry (metric only), automotive industry (metric only), pharmaceutical (metric only), mineral water, shampoos and conditioners (especially Procter and Gamble -- 500 mL, 750 mL and 1 L sizes), laundry detergent and fabric softeners (again, especially Procter and Gamble), and others. In the case of the automotive industry, although all cars are totally metric by design, consumers are not given statistics like trunk capacity and passenger space in metric units (liters), but in cubic feet. To the extent that metric is avoided in everyday use, Americans will continue to fail to grasp the metric system and remain out of step with the rest of the world. <end of message> Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: Bill Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 07:54 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: RE: [USMA:26211] The Globalist Global Health -- The Metric Way >to Sweeten Up America.htm > > >Nat: > >Much of the Unicode-based punctuation got screwed up (in the form >of multiple characters) in the transfer to the HTML email message, >making it very hard (and annoying) to read. > >Here's the URL: >http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3247. > >I went to the site (http://www.theglobalist.com) and registered, >then searched for the article, then exited and checked that the >above link worked. If the link doesn't work for others, you may >have to register, as I did. It's free. > >Bill Potts, CMS >Roseville, CA >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >
