If metric is "preferred," one wonders why meat and random weight produce must be sold by weight, measured in pounds, and bottled beer must be labelled in Customary measure, and why standard-size packages require both customary and metric net contents. I believe it is called hypocrisy and lip service. With no metrication plan to back up "preferred," it means absolutely nothing. Congress' insistence that metrication is voluntary is why ALL Federal agencies must continue to cater to those who won't metricate. (The fact that they make life a nuisance for those who have metricated is totally ignored.)
________________________________ From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Cc: USMA Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, June 29, 2011 2:53:01 AM Subject: [USMA:50777] Lacking elegance From: Pat Naughtin [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 11:51 PM >To: [email protected] >Cc: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: Re: [USMA:50742] Re: MyPlate > >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 2011/06/29, at 12:01 , Stan Doore wrote: > >I know Pat. But Congress has NOT mandated metric only be used. Thanks. >>Stan Dear Stan, What you say is true but hasn't your government not only made the metric system the basis for all measurement in the USA (in 1893 and again in 1959), it has also made (mandated) the metric system the "preferred" measurement system for the USA. This means, surely, that any government Department can be pointedly asked why they are grovelling to ill-informed people as the EPA has done with the MPGe ("miles per gallon equivalent" from another thread). Why has the EPA chosen to create an entirely newly defined group of measuring words instead of simply using the metric system units that are simpler and more honest, and probably already better known. They still have to devise an education strategy to introduce the public to the MPGe, which I understand was based on a chat with a focus group. I say again that watching the government of the USA grovelling to ill-informed people lacks a great deal of elegance when viewed from outside the USA. 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 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.
