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

The units on the sides of food products are in metric. I never even noticed before, because when I look at the nutrition values I usually only look at the percentages and not the actual amounts. I personally find myself using metric more and more as I move through high school science. I've lost almost all comprehension of Farenheit degrees in practical use, not like I ever understood them anyway. The only measurement I ever liked better in Imperial was feet and inches. In Brit books they always describe people as two or three meters tall, which is absolutely NO help in imagining them for me. 4-6 feet is much more comprehensible.

Mel"Metric or Imperial... Naah, I think I'll just take whatever looks bigger."anie