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

submitted 4 days 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 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Good analogy. Exactly.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

I'd be down for base 10 time.

[–] NorskSud@lemmy.pt 2 points 4 days ago

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