I have Pat's "Don't use metric!" paper downloaded onto my hard drive. Unlike
many things, it still entertains (and informs) with repeat readings.
Pat, there are some people who will insist on "...doing the hard yard...",
even if it kills them. Clearly FMI are among them.
Linda Bergeron
----Original Message Follows----
From: Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:36284] Re: FMI Show 2006
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:29:44 +1100
On 18/03/06 2:54 AM, "Paul Trusten, R.Ph." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Food Marketing Institute (FMI), a key opponent of the FPLA
metric-only
> labeling option amendment has said that it doubts U.S. consumers can
> understand metric units. But, it apparently does not doubt the
intellectual
> capacity of U.S. consumers in a number of other areas. So, what gives,
FMI?
> Have a peek at the FMI 2006 Show brochure (attached).
>
>
> Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
> U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Dear Paul and All,
Last year I wrote to the FMI.
Specifically I addressed my email to:
Elizabeth Tansing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ty Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wrote as follows:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Naughtin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 4:38 PM
> To: Elizabeth Tansing; Ty Kelley; FMI FEEDBACK
> Subject: Don't use metric!
>
> Dear Ty, Elizabeth, and All,
>
> I have just been reading the FMI web page at
> http://www.fmi.org/gr/issues/gr_issues_display.cfm?id=113 and as you are
> deeply involved in the current metrication debate in the USA, I thought
that
> you might be interested in the article, 'Don't use metric!' (at:
> http://www.metricationmatters.com/articles ). I recently visited the USA
and I
> saw the quiet and unobtrusive, but nevertheless rapid, progress that is
being
> made toward use of the metric system.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pat Naughtin
I also referred them to the article 'Costs of non-metrication' at the same
address: http://www.metricationmatters.com/articles
Ty Kelley replied:
Thanks for your e-mail. Yes, metric creep is happening here in the United
States, but Americans still embrace inches and pounds, feet, yards, ounces,
quarts and gallons, etc. So as long as Congress does not mandate metric
only for grocery items, FMI will be happy.
This email was unsigned.
Sadly, whenever I think of the FMI I also think of saboteurs -- those people
who used to throw wooden shoes (called sabots hence saboteurs) into
machinery in a futile attempt to prevent progress in manufacturing
industries in the 19th century.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305, Belmont, Geelong, Australia
Phone 61 3 5241 2008
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