Apparently the Food Marketing Institute is now the Food Industry Association. https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFood_Marketing_Institute&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C7efbde67d54d4a5c23da08d7d1883c7e%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637208255373958893&sdata=cZsAzsNrUXGn%2Fi3GN8Q1fWslNR8gE7DdcQEhCGwSB5Y%3D&reserved=0 <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFood_Marketing_Institute&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C7efbde67d54d4a5c23da08d7d1883c7e%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637208255373958893&sdata=cZsAzsNrUXGn%2Fi3GN8Q1fWslNR8gE7DdcQEhCGwSB5Y%3D&reserved=0>
Mike Payne > On 25 Mar 2020, at 04:56, Al Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mark's email below mention's contacting the FMI. For many years the FMI has > been a major roadblock to the adoption of metric only labeling. This is > based on published comments from 2002. Pat Naughtin of the USMA wrote in > Metricationmatters in 2009 that he suspected one man, Ty Kelley, Director of > Federal Government Relations for the FMI, was largely responsible the FMI's > opposition to metric only labeling. Mr. Kelly is no longer with the FMI, he > passed away in 2018, but I have been unable find anything about the FMI's > current position on metric only. An email inquiry I made some time ago got > no response. > > Al Lawrence > > > > > From: USMA <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Mark Henschel > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2020 11:01 AM > To: Parker Willey Jr. <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Cc: USMA List Server <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [USMA 1323] Re: Complicated vs simple measurement methodologies > > Parker: > Better to contact your Congressman or Senators. They rarely hear from > pro-metric people but hear from other people on every other topic. Better > yet, find someone in industry to help. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, > for example. If we can get someone high-profile to promote the cause, it will > make a big difference. Even better yet, contact the Food Marketing Institute > and get them to change their opposition to the metric-only labeling proposal. > This in itself would make a great step forward if people can buy their soap > and shampoo legally in metric-only labeled containers. > Mark Henschel > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:10 AM Parker Willey Jr. <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi: > > Take a look at my web site: > sites.google.com/site/mymetric > <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fmymetric&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C7efbde67d54d4a5c23da08d7d1883c7e%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637208255373958893&sdata=PaVBqxDW2AgIP8KyX%2FXuUodbLhWR7j51ZDx7L4yq7Uo%3D&reserved=0> > > See my latest argument for adopting the metric system. You can copy and > forward it to everybody. > > It needs to be put in front of all American people to show that our legacy > units of measurement is just a big KLUDGE! > > ...Parker > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > <https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma> > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > <https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma>
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