Why don't we try to get the public involved in these kinds of things? I mean,
rather than
pleading with government agencies, shouldn't we be out trying to win over
individual people, and
get enough people on our side to really put some pressure on the government?
Can't we get some
feet on the pavement in NYC, post up some flyers, get some folks organized? We
could email
professors and students at colleges in the area that might be friendly to such
things, try and get
some younger people fired up enough to draw attention to this cause.
On the upside, you would get a lot more people out there talking to these
government agencies. On
the downside, you would probably stir up some opposition. But how many people
really get riled up
against the metric system? I mean most people who don't like it don't even
take it seriously,
right?
Just trying to be helpful.
--- Paul Trusten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have done all I can with the New York State Department of Agriculture and
> Markets, Bureau of
> Weights and Measures, to get it to adopt the metric-only labeling option of
> the NCWM's Uniform
> Packaging and Labeling Regulation (UPLR), but with no favorable result as
> yet. New York and
> Alabama remain the only two U.S. jurisdictions (all the territories have
> adopted it) that have
> not given permission for this option. Why not, New York? Take a look at the
> opening section of
> your weights and measures law:
>
>
> ยง 176. Declaration of policy and purpose. The legislature hereby finds
> and declares that voluntary and orderly conversion to the metric system
> of weights and measures is of vital importance to the economy of the
> state. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state to
> encourage the gradual implementation of the metric system throughout the
> state's government, industry, commerce, business, education and
> agriculture. This article is enacted in the exercise of the public power
> in order to encourage such implementation and to provide a revised code
> of weights and measures which will be responsive to the present and
> future needs of commerce, industry and consumers. The legislature finds
> and declares that the coordination and administration of this unitary
> regulatory system governing weights and measures throughout the state
> should be, and is hereby, vested in the commissioner of agriculture and
> markets and that enforcement of this article by the counties and cities
> of the state shall be under his supervision.
>
> Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
> Public Relations Director
> U.S. Metric Assocation
> 3609 Caldera Blvd. Apt. 122
> Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
> +1(432)528-7724
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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