Why is hemp so good for us and the environment?

Nutrition

Hemp seeds have been consumed as a staple food all over the world for thousands of years. They are an important dietary component because they contain an abundance of essential nutrients.

On their own, hemp seeds  provide much of what your body needs without over-supplying some nutrients while causing a deficiency in others.

Hemp seeds don’t require cooking, soaking or crushing and are readily digestible. Your body can easily take what it needs and eliminate what it doesn’t. So your body isn’t wasting energy or suffering stress the way it does when trying to extract nutrients from processed foods.

Hemp seeds are safe. Unlike many foods we consume daily, hemp seeds do not burden your body with toxins, allergens, GMO’s or undigested waste materials.

 

Environment

Hemp literally has thousands of beneficial uses. Food, fibre, fuel, fabrics, furniture, medicine, building materials, paper, bio-plastics and the list goes on. This plant does it all.

While doing all this Hemp removes more CO2 from the air than plantation trees do and is highly pest, weed and drought resistant. So, unlike corn, cotton, soy, wheat and rice, Hemp uses a lot less water and doesn’t require pesticides or herbicides. It also yields food that is more nutritious than all these others combined and isn’t plagued by their allergies.

The amount of CO2 captured by roots and leaf mulch which gets left in the soil when a Hemp crop is harvested more than offsets the CO2 produced by the farm machinery required to harvest the crop.

A hectare of Hemp, which reaches maturity in 90 days, captures approximately ten times as much CO2 as a hectare of pine trees which take 20 years to reach maturity.