No, SE and Super sweet are not genetically engineered. They were bred by conventional means.

But certainly anyone growing SE or super sweet corns could be growing genetically engineered corn if that corn also as the BT gene or others that have been introduced.

Below is one of the many many links, this one from Cornell, that one can read via Google about the problem. I say problem, but many others don't see it that way at all.

Note that the article below says that very few sweet corns are genetically engineered as opposed to the field corns.

Carolyn

Here is a link that might be useful: Genetically Engineered Corn

Boy, the NY Times got something wrong. Imagine that.

That's why they're called news *stories*, these people are making this stuff up as they go along.

They were quoting a politician - I think from NJ - so maybe it was believing in politicians that led them astray.
Yes, I can see if someone was growing sweet corn down wind from a block of GE field corn, it would be easy to have the sweet corn contaminated. But that would assume the sweet corn grower was saving his own seed which normally is not the case because they're all growing hybrids.
Anyway nice to know that I haven't totally lost my marbles because I was pretty sure that the idea that sugary enhanced and super sweet corns were GE was another urban myth. And on matters like this I'd rather trust Fedco than the NY Times.