> >This measuring system thing is exactly the same as having a national language. Say you sold ice cream, and by law all ice cream containers were to have nutritional information on them. It would hardly be right for the government to allow these nutritional facts to be written in Chinese, because a very small part of the population knows Chinese, and the point of the nutritional information is to inform the public.
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> Alternatively, the buyer could exercise just a little bit of intelligence and purchase the product with English nutrional information. The kind of person who reads nutrition labels has already proven themselves to be more than competent enough to make the former decision. People who don't read nutrion labels don't care anyway. The freedom to choose which product to buy will then have a very strong impact on the seller, as they provide only what people are willing to buy.
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That reminds me. In the States, whenever a food's nutritional information content is listed on the label, are the units given in metric or U.S. customary measures?

I think I've heard the term 'fat-grams' getting flung around on American talk shows, as if it's already in common usage.

Wolfspirit