beenthr12
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Message #1045 posted by beenthr12 (Info) January 23, 2006 12:48:36 ET
I would love to join or start some type of organization that facilitates hemp growing in NY. New York State has the perfect climate for growing Hemp, and New York farmers are struggling. Heck, all of New York is struggling.
Anyway, up until the late 1930's, hemp was grown all over our country. (Of course if you check the Smithsonian museum, and Textile museum you won't find any evidence of it.) It was used to make paper, fabric, textiles; the seeds were used for nutritional and medicinal purposes alone, or pressed for their oil. The stalks are over 70% cellulose. That means, more fiber for manufacturing. Tree's have 20% cellulose.
The left over stumps and buds from Hemp when left in the soil continually supply nutrients so the land gets refurbished. Season after season, you can replant the acreage, and reap the same amount of product. In the rain forest/lumber forests it takes 20 years to regrow large enough trees to cut down for paper/etc. And then, over 70% of the tree is useless! Now keep in mind, the last space shuttle that went up saw and reported so much visible damage to our rain forests from deforestation that it seriously alarmed them.
So, why then, can't we grow hemp, and use it for what it was intended. Use the trees for hardwood, which would bring the prices down. That would keep the lumber mills happy.
Granted in the eyes of big business, this is a stupid and unnecesarry pipe dream, in the interest in our planet to me personally it is desperately necesarry. Especially when our government disagrees with the UN on global warming. We swat away the fact that we're losing oxygen in our atmosphere, every single acre that get's mowed down. Over 75% of the planets oxygen comes from the rain forest. Just because over here in America we can't see the rain forests, doesn't change that fact.
If anybody has any further ideas on this subject, i'd love to know. Thanks.
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