Well, I really tried, but it is very difficult for me to work with twitter. IT seems to shut me off after a certain number of tweets somehow thinking I am a machine. If anyone else wants to help out, here is the tweet I tried sending out to media, math and science organizations and hopefully sympathetic politicians:
Simplify package labeling in the USA, sign the petition: http://wh.gov/im0S9 Be patriotic, support US metrication. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Mark Henschel <mwhensch...@gmail.com> wrote: > it would be hard to send notices of this petition out on twitter since the > link is so long. IF I can find a shorter link to the petition I will send > out a note on twitter asking people to sign it. > MArk > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Harry's Email <hbwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The problem is that the petition doesn't say what the proposed amendment >> consists of. Allowing SI-only labels? Requiring SI to come first? >> >> HARRY WYETH >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Nov 1, 2015, at 05:22, Paul Trusten <trus...@mygrande.net> wrote: >> >> David, this is an excellent petition, and I am proud to have become the >> 14th signer (they take their time in updating the count, but I did confirm >> my signature in the email link sent to me). >> >> The permissive metric-only proposal to amend the Fair Packaging and >> Labeling Act to allow manufacturers the OPTION of dropping all but metric >> units from their labeling and packaging costs the manufacturers NOTHING and >> provides no mandatory changes in product labeling and packaging. In a >> country in which the metric system has now been declared (in 1988) to be >> the preferred system of weights and measures for trade and commerce, this >> change is necessary and many years overdue. >> >> Paul Trusten, Registered Pharmacist >> Vice President and Public Relations Director >> U.S. Metric Association, Inc. >> Midland, Texas, USA >> +1(432)528-7724 >> www.metric.org >> trus...@mygrande.net >> >> On Oct 31, 2015, at 13:24, David Pearl <cont...@metricpioneer.com> wrote: >> >> Simplify product-packaging labels in the United States by amending the >> Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA). >> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/simplify-product-packaging-labels-united-states-amending-fair-packaging-and-labeling-act-fpla >> >> >
