Dear Stan, The metric system is already the official system of measurement for the USA for all measurements as it has been since 1893 when the old pre-metric measuring words were defined in terms of metric system units. Sadly however, a lot of people choose to hide this fact as you point out is the case in the meat industry. It's hard to know why they do this grovelling to folk who are so ill-informed about the honesty and simplicity of the metric system. Grovelling by the government of the USA certainly lacks elegance.
You might be interested in some extremely simple advice I sent to Barack Obama and Joe Biden when they were first elected. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/NaughtinToObamaBiden.pdf Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia On 2011/06/26, at 13:29 , Stan Doore wrote: > You are correct. Until The US Congress mandates that metric > appears first on ALL labels like the rest of the world, then metric will > continue to flounder. Metric must become the official unit of measurement. > Regards, Stan Doore > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > John M. Steele > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 6:06 AM > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:50732] Re: MyPlate > > It's the USDA. They are the organization that DOESN'T require metric net > contents on standard weight packages of meat, unlike nearly all other foods, > which must be dual, Customary and metric. What do you expect. > > Of course, I also blame Congress for writing the bad law that lets them off > the hook. > > From: Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, June 24, 2011 12:31:49 AM > Subject: [USMA:50729] Re: MyPlate > > On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:15:01 [email protected] wrote: > > <div>Sadly, another Federal site with no SI in sight.</div> > > <div><br /></div> > > <div>http://www.choosemyplate.gov/myplate/index.aspx<br /></div> > > <div><br /></div> > > This was my comment on the site when I first saw it three weeks ago: > > The advice on the plate is no better than the previous advice. They recommend > lowfat milk instead of raw, removing fat from meat, canned fruit, and > microwaving. > > They make no recommendation to eat organic foods, pasture-raised meat, > organs, or whole salt. There is no seaweed group. > > They persist in obsolete or imprecise measures such as cups of vegetables, > ounces, and calories. > > Thumbs down. > > Pierre > -- > When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates. > Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada. > 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 for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
