The EU should use Joules not calories (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 months ago by NorskSud@lemmy.pt to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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Joule is the metric system unit to measure the energy in food, however we still see calories being used everywhere, specially advertising and fitness influencers. Let's stop this nonsense.

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[-] sockinggood@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Do you also want to use metric for time of day?

Calories for food is more understandable for people I think. But personally I welcome metric everywhere.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Calories are metric. This is like wanting people to switch to Kelvin instead of Celsius.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Good analogy. Exactly.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

I'd be down for base 10 time.

[-] NorskSud@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 months ago

By more understandable you mean they're used to. They can get used to something else.

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