The hemp plant has an illustrious history — for many thousands of years people spun sturdy textiles from its fiber while also valuing its seeds and oil for food. The puritans brought hemp to this country, making it an important crop in the New World. Today, children and adults alike enjoy using hemp twine to make casual beaded necklaces and bracelets. It has unsavory aspects too, thanks to the fact that it is the same species as the marijuana plant (Cannabis sativa). While it is illegal to grow hemp in this country, food made from hemp, grown in Canada and other countries, remains perfectly legal and is actually very, very good for you.
In fact, hemp is a nutritional gold mine containing antioxidants, omega-3 fatty acids, protein and other nutrients. Specifically, hemp boasts omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids in a ratio of 3:1, which is generally considered the optimal ratio. Additionally, hemp contains significant amounts of what Gero Leson, D.Env., an environmental scientist and scientific advisor to the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance, refers to as “super” polyunsaturated fatty acids, gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) and stearidonic acid (SDA). Hemp also provides a balanced and very digestible protein, along with significant concentrations of both tocopherol and tocotrienol vitamin E, magnesium, manganese and other minerals and vitamins.
HOW TO EAT HEMP
Since hemp is not typically available at your local grocery or served in restaurants, it’s valid to wonder, how do you eat it? Edible hemp is available as oil, nuts, seeds and seed cake (the protein and fiber-rich flour that remains after the pressing for oil) and as an ingredient in such foods as salad dressing, nutrition bars, breads, cookies, granola, nut butter, pasta, frozen desserts and more. Dr. Leson says the oil is delicious in salad dressing or used to lightly sauté meats or vegetables. It should not be used for frying, since high temperatures damage the highly unsaturated fatty acids and produces unhealthy by-products. The hemp nuts are richly nutritious — Dr. Leson toasts them lightly to add to yogurt, cereals, sauces and sprinkled over meats. He says that hemp protein powder, used in shakes, is a great source of fiber, too.
Dr. Leson told me that some liken the taste of hemp to sunflower oil, but he disagrees. He says it is better described as having a rich, nutty taste. Dr. Leson recommends looking for top-quality brands such as Nutiva, Manitoba Harvest and Living Harvest. You can find hemp foods at Whole Foods Market and other natural food stores throughout the US, as well as on the Internet.

Source(s): ??Gero Leson, D.Env., an environmental scientist and scientific advisor to the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance.

When you call I respond. I love when you ask a question. It is so sexy! Oh so shoot the male in me. You could be my vice or president any day. Forgive me for admitting that I prefer the “vice” where you are concerned.

I see you and Madaline are in agreement about another male trying to convince women that they are not really being abused.

Now for your second or third, etc foreign policy lesson.

Aircraft carriers permit a nation to reach the shore of other nations with the arsenal carried by the airplanes aboard that aircraft carrier capable of hitting any target within that nation.

Yes, and no on the position of aircraft carriers. Yes if the nation whose waters it is in has no way of defending itself against the superior power.

No, if the nation is also a nuclear power with aircraft and similar naval power. In short the big boys respect each other. Russia is a world nuclear power second only to the USA. She not only deserves respect, she can demand it by sending one of her aircraft carriers to sit off the coast of the USA in retaliation.

Its called provocation by one side and saber rattling by the other. The aircraft carrier that the US has deposited off the coast of Russia capable of launching a nuclear strike on any point in Russia would cause Russia to lose face if it did not respond in some way. Russia will because she has to to maintain her status as a super power.

Please challenge me Sweetness. Anyone afraid of a challenge does not feel equipped to meet it. I may or may not be up to the challenge, but I relish the test. Meeting you would be my most distinct pleasure. Challenge me Zenfully!

This action by the bush boys was a calculated effort to produce an international incidence by way of a response by Russia. They want to create an atmosphere of fear to shift the presidential issue to one of national defense.

The pipeline you asked about simply carries oil from one point to another through Georgia via their pipelne. Russia knows that a deliberate disruption of that pipeline could provoke a war between the US, its allies and Russia. Unless Russia could procure a military agreement with China and some other nuclear power, it would not take on the Allies. So Russia would not deliberately interfere with the pipeline.

All talk about such an interference is made by the bush boys to incite fear of a possible conflict between Russia and the USA. The Russian bigwigs and the people would probably balk at risking their investments in the US and their US partners who invest with them in Russia. Big money has no country allegiance. It is the little people of those countries that get psyched up about god and country, patriotism and service.

Big money just makes more money off the situations it creates to force the use of those militaries they get to provide goods and services to for an unconsciously greedy cost.

Anonz

I’m going to e-mail Azir (he did leave a name and website) to let him know of my blog entry response, then I will release my response which mirrors most of what you said above, nicer wording but that’s just me, I don’t rip new assholes unless I’m absolutely sure a gentler approach wouldn’t be more helpful. I’m not trying to change Islamic men or women – not my job…just trying to open minds to better possibilities. I would be pleased to cut and paste your response and bring Azir’s attention to it : ) bc in the end, he probably could use a new asshole : )

Re: Palin and the media, not trying to justify that lack of common sense (who made the claim US had any of that anyway? Other countries do totally weird shit which seems to lack common sense also, ah but we’re supposed to be above it bc we’re some kid of super power? ha!) – anyway, I am patiently waiting for the debates during which I am relying on O and Biden to kick some major ass, and why shouldn’t Biden treat Palin as any other candidate we know she’s a pit bull wearing lipstick.

I wonder if she knows she’s being used as a mouthpiece for all the shit McCant wants to say but needs to keep distance from, and she’s coming off like a ‘tough cookie’ to all those repug women (not the men, who’s kidding who here) who are just creaming their jeans over having a woman for veep – even if she strips away half their women’s rights, oh please…off with her freakin’ head already

Good thing I’ve got to go bc I could rant all night.

Catch you later, Zen

I didn’t read all of the bullshit your commenter was making to justify a man’s right to beat his wife. It does not matter what the “reason” Allah was supposed to have given the man to beat his wife. The fact is a God, Allah, Jesus, Budah or any other true God would not give one sex the right to beat another sex.

Whether or not a man beats his wife does not erase the fact that the koran gives him the right to do so, however adeptly it is portrayed. Any woman would prefer a civl law that guarantees a woman’s right to be free of being beaten by a man, husband or not.

The elephant in the room was that there is no place where Allah gave the woman the right to beat her husband. Are we supposed to believe that no husband ever cheats on his wife? If the God is not fair to all his people it is not God, it is a man’s interpretation of a thing he would like others to accept as God.

Bullshit is still bullshit whether or not it has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

The test of a true philosophy or religion is the freedom one has to claim it as his or her own and the freedom one has to discard it.

Islam fails both tests. It is a cult religion that is forced upon most of it members by those who are conquered or who are the children of parents who are practitioners of Islam. And once becoming a member of the Islamic cult one can only leave it under penalty of death.

Under those circumstances, is it any wonder it is the world’s largest religion. But that says more about the cruelty of the cult towards defection and the fear that it engenders to those who would defect, than it does about the good it imparts to its members.

Men everywhere are very clever when it comes to justifying oppressive systems towards women and other minorities. He did not leave a name, perhaps it is because one seldom signs bullshit when it is first floated.

The biggest turd of all being his proud claim that – “But I have realized one thing: like it or not, it’s a man’s world out there; even in the most adamant face of feminism. And yes, “…because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other…” (Surah Nisa, Chapter 4, Verse 34.) And it would be vain to argue over who has more physical prowess. That is why perhaps Islam concentrates on “gender equity” rather than “gender equality”. One’s duty is to maintain. The other’s is to look after. Well, it might not be always as reductive as that. However, basically I guess it’s just a division of responsibilities rather than a ‘demeaning’ of them. ”

Asshole it is a man’s world over my dead body. It is Our world, woman and man’s equally. Don’t mistake the refusal of a few brutal men to allow women their rightful place in the world as making it being a “man’s world.”

As for this part of the quote – “And it would be vain to argue over who has more physical prowess.” – is concerned. I would venture to say that it would be just as vain to argue who has more mental prowess. Arabic men have done nothing to distinguish themselves in the modern world intellectually. Perhaps they should give their women a chance at an equal education so that the Arabic world could join the rest of the world intellectually. It should be obvious that the brains reside in their women, the men can’t tell this islamic bullshit from camel shit. The women know better. That’s why they are forced into a life of captivity.

Your at the end of that shitty comment said it all about who you are. Bring that bullshit to this arena and the women here will tear you a new asshole. How’s that for a little “gender equity?”

Would you whining islamic wimps have the same feeling if western men said that you inept islamic creeps should be content with civil equity rather than civil equality with the rest of the world? I think not. Yet you misogynists would try to force civil equity upon the defenseless half of your population. I hope you and the rest of those little penis, pedophiliac islamic men never achieve equality with the rest of the world until you are willing to give it to your female citizens.

Zen Lill you have my permission to copy and paste my comment where the little penis wonder can read it.

My name is Madaline and I am proud of it