No Carleton. You buy the produce, paying in proportion to its mass. You do not buy the force that gravity exerts on the produce. The scale is *calibrated* to display in units of mass, not force. The force deflects the scale, but you don't buy the force.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:58:55 -0500 >From: "Carleton MacDonald" <carlet...@comcast.net> >Subject: [USMA:43248] Re: discussion of Food Marketing Institute objections >to metric-only labeling option >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> > > >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
