"pat" > wrote in message
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> Pennyaline wrote:
>>James Silverton wrote:
>>>Well, I won't hold onto my hat since theMetric systemhas been *legal*
>>>here for about a century. I'd also forgotten what was a "Chopine" :-)
>>
>>It may be legal, young fella, but it isn't American!
>
> There are US laws that forbid metrication. US Federal law (the FPLA,
> for example) forbids metric-only labels on most prepackaged things you
> see in the supermarket.

Probably because too many people would not know how to easily do the
conversion or think in metric terms. Bacon has always been a pound and thus
will remain so, or something like that. 500 grams or a half kilo would make
their brain hurt.

The two reasons I've always run into is a large percentage just don't want
to change and are afraid, another big group thinks the US system is
superior, just because it is the US system. We are in a world economy, like
it or not, and if we used metric, it would be easier for our country to deal
wit the rest of the world. The Hubble telescope would not have been screwed
up.

I've been using metric at work for 20 years now. It is easy and sensible,
and the choice of most everyone there now that they've used it.