The Uses for Industrial Hemp
by Suzaku Kururugi - July 13th, 2009.Filed under: Positive Hemp Information. Tagged as: building materials, carbon dioxide reduction, conservation, food, fuel, hemp, industry, paper, thousands of products.
Hemp is by far the most versatile plant on the face of the Earth. If people knew how much could be accomplished with it, there would be outright riots for it not being fully taken advantage of. Hemp can be used for literally thousands of things, and its total utilization could actually save the planet.
The seeds from the hemp plant are the most nutritious in the plant kingdom. It contains all the essential amino and fatty acids in the proper ratios for the human body. Due to this, hemp seed oil and other seed products are an ideal staple food, and the ultimate food for any health enthusiast.
Parts of the hemp plant can be converted to fuel via a method called pyrolysis. Hemp is better than corn for fuel because you do not need to sacrifice food for fuel, as the part of hemp that is edible is only the seeds. Also, because hemp grows in such abundance, you can get a lot of fuel from only one acre of hemp, and it is carbon neutral, since it removes CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows.
Essentially anything that can be made from a tree can be made from hemp. This includes paper and building materials, which requires hundreds of thousands of trees to be destroyed every year. If tree products were replaced with hemp, then forests could be saved, and trees could be greatly conserved.
The number one thing that people associate hemp with is actually one of the least important uses, although it still is critical to the functioning of industries. The product being referred to is rope and twine, as well as a multitude of other textile products such as cloth and tarp. Hemp is the strongest natural fiber in the world, so products made from hemp are also very durable and long lasting, a quality which is important to everyone.
If you start listing off the individual products that hemp is good for, you will come up with a list over twenty five thousand items long. Think about how many natural resources could be saved if only hemp was used; since it is renewable, it does not matter how much of it you cut down. We cannot say the same for trees, which are precious natural resources that must be conserved with all the power we have.