by
Paul
BenhaimPlastics (UK), hemp is being used to produce sustainable,
biodegradable forms of plastic. With today’s technology and use of
the internet we are all able to gain access to this knowledge. It is
not as easy to hide the truth anymore. We just have to be open to
it.
‘Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely
useless until we choose to use it.’
As our forests die, our landfills fill-up, the sea warms and
destroys coral life, our water becomes too polluted to drink from
the rivers, the ice-caps melt and our aid becomes un-breathable,
governments ignore the possibility of thinking again, as it would
admit too many mistakes. Instead they research bio-spheres,
places were ‘we’ can live when our planet is destroyed. Can this
work for everyone or just an elite circle of ‘colleagues’? What can
we do to change the world? Let us start with ourselves and
surround ourselves with what we know or understand to be
sustainable. The time has come for hemp to be part of our daily
lives. There is nothing like an idea whose time has come.
Food
Industry
A recent calamity has taken place in society – economic
considerations have dictated where and how our food is grown,
manufactured and delivered to us. Crops are grown intensively in
chemical filled soils, covered with pesticides and processed by
energy intensive methods. They are mixed with hydrogenated fats,
refined sugars, additives and preservatives to make the
substances we call food taste pleasant and keep for longer. Such
products are then packed in non-renewable, long-life materials to
be shipped thousands of miles, only to be stored on shelves for a
further length of time until they are consumed in large amounts. It
is time to pause from our hemp story and consider why.