"Typically, we don't see the metric system in use here in the U.S."

This statement in the article indicates why we need to do a much better

job of public education and stop talking about "converting" to the metric

system and instead talking about "completing" metrication.

The metric system is already 50% here. It is used in medicine, pharmacy,

alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, light bulbs, power, radioactivity,

and many other industries, while it is making headroads into other

industries like food, where new products are often hard-sized to metric

quantities.

I argue that the U.S. is no more "non-metric" than Canada and England, for

example, which countries have not completed their metrication either.

Let's stop talking about the U.S. being the only non-metric country in the

world along with two unknown little countries. We're on the way to

complete metrication, just like certain other countries that haven't

gotten there yet.

Martin Morrison "Metric Today" Columnist ============ On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, cont...@metricpioneer.com wrote: