In his wildest dreams, could Dr Frankenstein have dreamed up Genetically Modified Organisms? They are one of the biggest horror stories anyone could imagine.
In today’s post, we’re going to give you some clear facts on what GMOs are. Those facts alone will make you want to ensure you choose non-GMO products like Young Living’s at all costs.
To guarantee your peace of mind, Young Living’s Vitality range of essential oils has received non-GMO certification from the NonGMO Project . How awesome! You can count on Young Living’s Seed to Seal® commitment and absolute dedication to providing the highest quality essential oils and oil-enhanced products available.
What is a GMO?
GMOs are living things that have had their genetic make-up manipulated through genetic engineering to produce things that do not occur in nature or through traditional methods of cross-breeding.
In short, the creation of GMOs is making something natural into something unnatural. GMOs are combinations of genes from plants and animals, bacteria and viruses that simply would not occur if left to nature’s own devices.
Why are GMOs bad?
In case the completely unnatural aspect of GMOs doesn’t alarm you, let’s give you a list of very non-cheery bullet points to summarise how dreadful they are (taken from the info over at the NonGMO Project):
- It’s unknown if GMOs are safe as there has not been sufficient long-term, independent feeding studies (ie not funded in any way, shape or form by those with vested in interests in their results), so basically we are the test case as we continue to consume GMO-affected foods
- While 64 countries including Australia require labels to show if any GMOs are present, at the time of writing, that leaves a lot of countries not requiring such labelling, including Canada and the United States, although SOME GMOs will need to be declared in the US by 2022
- Most processed foods include ingredients sourced from the big four crops that are rife with GMOs: soy, corn, canola and sugarbeet
- Even such ingredients as vitamins, microbes and enzymes, oils and fats, proteins, corn syrup, molasses, sucrose, textured and hydrolysed vegetable proteins (key ingredients in many meat-substitute products), yeast products and flavourings can be affected
- Feed for livestock, aquaculture and apiculture commonly contain GMOs, so they transfer hidden up the food chain through other fresh foods we eat
- Even farms that don’t use GMO seed are at risk of contamination due to drift of pollen from neighbouring farms that do use GMO, so it is extremely difficult to contain in non-isolated farming areas
- Most GMOs were developed to supposedly make them resistant to chemicals like the herbicide RoundUp® and this has dramatically and directly increased the use of such toxic chemicals and the resistance of weeds and bugs due to heavy exposure, resulting in the superweeds and superbugs causing much concern worldwide
- Once GMOs are in the environment, there is no way to recall them
What Can You Do?
Yowsa. After that depressing missive, let’s focus now on what we can do to be proactive and seek out non-GMO products at every turn.
Young Living is unremitting in its determination to help your well being through providing you with the finest essential oils on the planet and its 5×5 Pledge which includes bringing essential oils into 5 million homes in five years. Seeking verification from the NonGMO Project is yet another way of reassuring you of their commitment.
This will also connect you up with The Good Oil Team for our personal support and coaching. We'd love to help you on your journey to vibrant well-being the natural way!
Any questions? Please get in touch via our Contact page.
Every essential oil in the Young Living Vitality range (these are suitable for adding to food and drink) has undergone comprehensive third-party examination to verify it’s come from sources that are free of any kind of genetic modification. You can expect to see the NonGMO Project Verified label coming through on the Young Living Vitality range in due course, and please join Young Living via the Good Oil Daily so that you also join our team and can access our personal assistance.
Please check out our recipes for plenty of tasty, nutritious and easy ways to add the zing and energy of Young Living Vitality oils to your every day.
We also urge you to spread the word about the potential dangers of GMO and be proactive with signing petitions, refusing GMO foods and products and encouraging your local government regulatory agencies to do everything possible to (a) ensure all products that include GMO are labelled as such so you can choose to avoid them and (b) deeply investigate the science and work towards eradicating GMOs.
Essential oils are potent, so as always, please follow directions on the bottle and the usual guidelines for safe use of authentic essential oils.
Please ensure you are choosing a brand with complete transparency from seed to seal, such as Young Living. You can learn in this short video why we only ever recommend and choose Young Living oils and love them so much!
This will also connect you up with The Good Oil Team for our personal support and coaching. We'd love to help you on your journey to vibrant well-being the natural way!
Any questions? Please get in touch via our Contact page.
