HEMP - The answer to everything!?

Hemp yields more material per acre than cotton does, significantly more. The material is also more durable and actually lasts longer... and yet we still grow cotton on a massive industrial scale.

Cotton is probably one of the most pesticide intensive crops grown in America, one of the crops that creates more pollution than anything.. and it is very hard to produce large yields of organically grown cotton. Hemp, is easy to grow organically without dangerous synthetics, and it will actually fix and heal the soil, as a nitrogen fixer!!! The root will actually go deep into the soil many feet and break up soil to make it loose and more fertile, amazing!

Hemp could produce more paper than tree farms per acre per year by far, and prevent a LOT of un-sustainable deforestation!!!

Hemp is an AMAZING food source, the leaves can be brewed into a tea and

the young leaves are edible..the seed which is sold in natural food stores is -
-A complete protein source
-An omega 3 fatty acid source (the fats found in fish some say are healthy)
-GLA, it reduces inflammation in the body!
-Edestin, an absorbable protein!
-High magnesium levels, it's good for your nerves!

The seed is unfortunatley regulated to be hulled so that it will not sprout, but hemp seed sprouts are also an outstanding source of many vital nutrients.

Even amazon.com, the book store, carries hemp foods, and you can go here to learn more about the oil, protein powder, food bars, and whole seeds they sell - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NGX7V0?ie=UTF8&tag=myspace0172-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000NGX7V0

Hemp can be grown basically anywhere. From Canada to the rainforest, hemp can thrive. We could have hemp growing everywhere in this country utilizing it for just about everything, yet it is has been made illegal to grow in America, which is one of the few countries that has outlawed it's growth for industrial use??

Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture?

Anyone, so what I think we can all do is start to support things like hemp clothing, also found ona mazon.com, and nutiva the hemp seed health food company actually gives 1% of their profit to things like "VOTEHEMP" and other activist organizations. The owner of the company attempted to legalize Hemp in California a few years ago, and he is a dedicated guy.

You can learn more about nutiva products here - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NGX7V0?ie=UTF8&tag=myspace0172-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000NGX7V0

The more hemp seed you buy, the more will be grown. The more the farmers and companies are supported, the more they can leverage themselves to create a sustainable planet and make this incredibly healing plant utilized more!

 

Its like Duct Tape...

Sorry, but I like my cotton T's. If I wanted to wear a shirt made out of twine, I'll be sure to come ask you about that.

 

Have you ever actually seen or felt hemp material???

Just curious. Was it 100% hemp?

 

Hemp necklaces and crap.. feels like twine, unless it wasn't 100%.

 

Hemp clothes can be made similar to cotton. It just depends on how it is processed, it isn't all like twine.

People can also build houses out of it. It is more energy efficient and stronger then concrete. Here is a link http://www.life.ca/nl/108/hemphouse.html

 

Is that long chain or short chain omega3's? Otherwise I agree with what you are saying. Check this thread out as well,

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=125770

 

not the answer to everything....but definitely should be should be used alot more

 

It's definitely a very viable option that people tend to be afraid of due to pre-conceived notions. Educate yourself fully about the products, especially if you're interested in environmentally concious alternatives.

One of the things with hemp though, is if it took off, you can't tell me there wouldn't be GM hemp plants all over the place in order to increase profit margins, which brings about another huge issue....

 

I'm wearing a 55% hemp/45% cotton shirt right now and it feels amazing, the difference is not that big at all actually...it definatley does not feel like rope. I rarely see 100% hemp apparell and I kinda wonder why that is?

A hemp necklace is definatley processed in different ways than a hemp shirt, the material is very different. You can process hemp a lot of different ways into a lot of different things I bet.



Bilby, that's a great question!!!!

I actually have in my refridgerator a 16 ounce bottle of hemp oil right now, that I got off amazon here for basically bulk wholesale prices, truly awesome price - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H32T4K?ie=UTF8&tag=myspace0172-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000H32T4K

And it actually says right on the bottle "Closest vegetable source to fish!"

It doesn't have long chain omega 3 but any healthy person can make the conversion in their body, if they have adequate magnesium levels and a couple other co-factors.

To me, just knowing that hemp actually has omega 3, out of the millions of plant species on this Earth that don't, is just amazing and merits some consideration.

I think the oil is a great replacement for olive oil (and other oils that really shouldnt be consumed at all like canola, corn, or soy) in a culinary respect cuz it tastes better and it tips your fat balance toward the omega 3 side.

Another trick for increasing absorbability is to mix coconut oil with hemp oil.

I don't believe there are many safe fish oil products on the market anyway really, all of the oils are hexane extracted (not Nutivas) and many contain PCB's or other dangerous toxins that were not distilled out.

Not to mention a capsule of fish oil is a small dose and you kinda get ripped off when you don't just buy a whole bottle of liquid... and also consider the indigestable gelatin the oil is in!!! Puts a pretty large burden on your body

 

I don't think they would need to genetically modify hemp plants since they grow so easily and abundantly already, and actually fix the nitrogen in the soil and make land better so they can grow more the next year.

I guess you never know what Monsanto will come up with next though... but it seems like one of the more unlikely candidates if your thinking rationally and logically (which I understand not everyone is, especially people behind big agri-business)

 

I would really like to buy hemp clothing, but I live in very rural area that is not particularly bohemian and therefore market as such. With clothing I do like to test first.

We are all biologically individual and for this reason some peoples' bodies are better at doing the conversion than others. Eating linseeds does not do much for my sex life but maybe I should sprout them first. This maybe the reason why a vegetarian diet is healthy for some people but not for others.

what is wrong with olive oil (providing it has not been extracted with chemical solvents)?

Hear, hear.

Coconut oil is not available where I live. I have heard of an Asian supermarket in Melbourne that I might visit the next time I am there.

Why not just eat oily fish to start with. Nile Perch is an oily fish that is a pest so you are doing something for the environment by eating it and coming from Africa I somehow doubt Lake Victoria would have much industrial pollution in it.

 

Cuz oily fish is slimy and gooey and gross..hemp seeds are apptetizing to me, LOL.

I have never heard of Nile Perch but that's interesting...

Here in America, we have to worry about such things like grocery stores mis-labling farmed salmon as wild alaskan salmon(one of the few safe fish left to eat) which actually happens regularly... and farmed salmon is sooo filled with chemicals that it is ridculous, not to mention it has no omega 3 since it was not actually fed it's natural diet of algae which would give it it's nutrition. Farmed fish is horrible for you 99% of the time.

I get the sustainably harvested certified wild alaskan salmon for my cat in health food stores but I've never felt as drawn to eat it myself.

There has to be SOME hemp clothing in Australia, and surely there's some organic coconut oil or an organic food store within a 100 mile radius? I would think coconuts would grow there or am I wrong?


There's nothing necesarily wrong with organic olive oil, just hemp oil is a lot better. Most people consume too much omega 6-9 and not enough omega 3, and olive oil has no omega 3...

while omega 6 and 9 are better than rancid fat and its a step up from fryed or cooked fatty foods, which many people consume on a regular basis.. omega 3 fat in a raw form would actually be the most optimum fat to ingest on a regular basis, and thats exactly what hemp seed oil is.

Hemp is the most balanced oil of all oils ever, by far.

Udo Erasmus, famous author of "Fats that heal and Fats That Kill" and the guy behind udo's oils, says hemp seed is one of the most IDEAL foods for humans to eat! To me, that say's a lot!!!

Hemp seed has a balanced omega fat ratio, the most similar to bodies ratio of fatty acids. I think if your a reasonably healthy human being and you consume hemp on a regular basis, you will be in good shape and fine without fish. If your worried about long chain omega 3, there is always blue green algae supplements which is a lot cleaner than most fish oil products on the market here.

Heres a great wholesale source of raw organic hemp seed from a great company called Nutiva, a socially responsible company with a great business ethic : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NGX7V0?ie=UTF8&tag=myspace0172-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000NGX7V0 - A 3 pack of hemp seeds for about 18.00

 

The only place I have seen coconuts growing in Australia is on Hinchinbrook Island in the Great Barrier Reef when I was on an Outward Bound course. BTW when I was on this course showed us a way of breaking open coconuts just by tapping them around the equator with a stone –going around several times. It falls apart all of a sudden. But at the mo coconut oil is still a rarity around here.

I have also read Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill. Interesting but what I could not understand is why he endorsed canola especially when he has already gone into great detail on how most vegetable oils are extracted. Also why pan fry with butter? Ghee is far better. Not that hard to make your self. The other thing was he did not differentiate between long chain and short chain omega3’s.

I make my own mayonnaise using olive oil.

 

lol anything and everything, even if the way it's growing naturally is working, seems to need to be interfered with...ah Monsanto, what bullshit will you concoct next?

 

I think the outlaw of hemp probably had more to do with the cotton lobby than it ever did with illegal drug usage. But that's what the general public has bought into.

 

I remember reading a fantastic book about the history of hemp "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer's and the illegal drug use was said to just be a part of the propaghanda to get people away from hemp. I searched amazon and found a book related to this:
"How Hemp Became Virtually Illegal Overnight"
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Hemp-Vi...319233?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178461770&sr=1-30

 

There was a TV doco made a few years ago called "Billion Dollar Crop" if I remember the name correctly.

 

YES!!!!!!!!!! Exactly Hemp can replace so many products that are on market shelves right now, and it would be bio-degradable, I think that if Hemp can be used it should be, just like its cousin. hehe