Yest, they pretend they only oppose mandatory-metric (Customary forbidden) but in fact they oppose permissive-metric-only (metric or dual). I think it is obvious they opposed metric entirely in 1992 but had to settle for the dual mess we now have as victory, and better than "real metric." They probaly opposed the original Customary FPLA in 1966. Why would a grocer want honest labels?
Hell, they probably opposed the Imperial gallon in 1824 and are the reason the US is stuck with (wine) gallon and (corn) bushel, circa 1705 Act of Parliament. ________________________________ From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, April 5, 2011 4:18:07 PM Subject: [USMA:50299] FMI 2005 Dear All, In 2005 August, 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 LCAMS Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY 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 now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/ to subscribe.
