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Australia is the last western country in the world to legalise industrial hempseed food for human consumption.
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INDUSTRIAL HEMPSEED FOR FOOD
To the Hon. Mr. Stephen Robertson, Member for Stretton
Queensland Minister for Health
health@ministerial.qld.gov.au
I want to buy industrial hempseed food, but I am told that it is not legal for human consumption in Australia and I am told that Australia and New Zealand are the last two western countries in the world to legalize hempseed food.
Naturopaths, sports trainers, body builders and many health books and websites now recommend hempseed food for many ailments. Overseas, hempseed food is in a variety of foods and sold in shops and hemp restaurants. Many people recognize the nutritional benefits of hempseed food and know hempseed is easily digested by humans.
The seed is cold-pressed for the oil and the remaining seed is called hemp meal. The hemp meal can then be milled into flour and/or protein powder. The flour is approximately 30% protein (omega 3, 6 and 9) and 35% dietary fibre plus minerals. The protein powder is an excellent source of protein, especially for vegetarians. Hempseed oil is especially healing for people with eczema, psoriasis and other dry skin problems and it can be applied directly to the skin. In some cases, people find hempseed oil is the only treatment that improves their skin disease.
Industrial hemp can not only be manufactured into food, but textile, building materials, bio-fuel, plastic, skin care, animal bedding and food, and paper. Industrial hemp is the most efficient carbon sequestering crop grown all over the world and absorbs about 1.7 times its dry weight of CO2. Hemp stems are made from approximately 50% carbon. One of hemps many uses is building material. As hemp concrete is made up of about 50% hemp stems, a hemp house consists of roughly 25% carbon, all of which will have been sequestered from the atmosphere. In contrast, concrete has a high carbon footprint due to the nature of cement production from limestone, which generates extra CO2 in addition to emissions from its substantial fossil fuel appetite. Over thousands of year, hemp has become naturally resistant to most pests and does not require herbicides. It can produce everything that trees and cotton produce and everything produced from petrochemical oil can be produced from hemp oil. Hemp yields 4 times that of trees and twice that of cotton. Hemp takes only 120 days to grow, compared to trees that take 5-20 years to grow for harvesting.
Hemp must NOT be confused with marijuana. The level of THC (the psychoactive ingredient that gets people high) is so low in industrial hemp (0.03%) that it has no effect if smoked. If marijuana plants are planted in a crop of industrial hemp, they cross-pollinate and reduce the THC in marijuana and give no “high” effect when smoked. Please consider the legislation of hempseed food for human consumption in Australia for earth’s sake.
Best Regards,.....Name....., Address
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