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Home / Society / Issues / Government Operations / Anti-Metrication
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- British Weights and Measures Association (BWMA) - Group which lobbies and promotes English/imperial weights and measures, and opposes compulsory conversion to the metric system. Includes news, position papers about the history of metrication and its impact on consumers and merchants, discussion forum, and related links.
www.bwmaonline.com
- British Weights and Measures Association: Footrule - Provides general articles, membership information, sponsors, and newsletter archives of the BWMA.
users.aol.com/footrule
- English Weights and Measures - History, current usage, and listing of units and conversions; comparison of English and American measurements; descriptions of collectible weights; external links and anti-metrication resources.
home.clara.net/brianp
- Freedom 2 Measure - Criticizes metrication as globalist and un-American; provides arguments for the superiority of the English-American system over the metric and links to related sites.
www.freedom2measure.org
- Inch Perfect - An assortment of articles asserting the superiority of British weights and measures to the French decimal system, including nineteenth century sources.
www.users.zetnet.co.uk/estatopia/inch.htm
- Metric System - Just Say No - Criticizes metric measurement as artificial and impracticable at the consumer level; also provides a short history of the Fahrenheit scale.
www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jup/metric
- MetricSucks.com - An offbeat anti-metric site including a humorous essay critical of the origins of the metric system, a discussion forum for measurement-related news, conversion table, and related links.
www.metricsucks.com
- Ockham's Razor: Trouble with the Metric System - An interview with University of Queensland professor Arthur Marcel on the advantages of the imperial method of measurement over the metric, and on the failures of the metric system in Australia.
www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s11563.htm
- Presidential campaign could use some anti-metric mania - Column by neoconservative columnist Jonah Goldberg on Tesco's decision to restore imperial weights and measures, and on metrication as an ideological tool of the EU and WTO.
www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah080100.asp
- Salish Indians Against the Metric System (SIAMS) - Criticizes Canada's imposition of metric measurements on its aboriginal peoples.
members.tripod.com/~siams_canada
- Save the Pint - Opposes compulsory adoption of the metric system in Britain; online petition and a collection of news and opinion articles.
www.savethepint.com
- Sunderland Metric Martyrs - Defense fund for Steve Thoburn and Neil Herron, who were prosecuted under British law for using imperial measurements. Provides background, related cases, and links.
www.metricmartyrs.sageweb.co.uk
- Weights and Measures - Provides an overview of traditional measurement systems; articles, quotations, and talking points for alternatives to and reasons for rejecting metric.
www.shaunf.dircon.co.uk/shaun/metrology/metrology.htm
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