When you buy something in the produce department you put it on the scale, which measures the force that gravity exerts on what you are buying ...
Carleton -----Original Message----- From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of mech...@illinois.edu Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 13:35 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:43247] Re: discussion of Food Marketing Institute objections to metric-only labeling option Carleton, Grocery stores sell products by mass, by volume, or by count. They may call mass, volume, and count by other names (residue from the nineteenth century) but in SI they are mass, volume, and count. Weight (a force in SI) is *not* an object which can be bought and sold. Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:28:59 +0000 (UTC) >From: carlet...@comcast.net >Subject: [USMA:43244] Re: discussion of Food Marketing Institute objections to metric-only labeling option >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> >Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> > > Most grocery stores sell produce by weight. But go > out to a country Farmer's Market and you'll find the > tomatoes, apples, etc. in these little bags or > baskets, all priced by quaint measure such as > "pint", "quart", "peck", "bushel", etc.
