Dear All,
This news release from the FMI http://www.fmi.org/news_releases/index.cfm?fuseaction=mediatext&id=452
shows how they use metric measures for international trade.
Obviously, health data for this film would have been acquired from the
medical researchers and medical practitioners in metric units then
dumbed down for citizens of the USA. Their policy for the health of
international citizens is clearly different to their policy for
citizens of the USA.
It seems obvious that the view sent to me by Ty Kelley
([email protected] ) in 2005 is still current:
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.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
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