Current Green now being sponsored by Sun Chips. Aren't those ingredients GMO?

http://www.fritolay.com

I wanted to reach out and respond to your posting. I work on the SunChips brand team at Frito-Lay. I read through your comments and really do appreciate the concerns you raise.

Please know that Frito-Lay (and the SunChips brand) is committed to improving the sustainability of our products and our processes. As a company, we have been taking some important steps forward, including the introduction of the compostable SunChips bag. If you are interested in more information, we've been chronicling some of our efforts at www.fritolay.com and www.SunChips.com. In addition, Fast Company recently recognized our efforts in this space (http://www.fastcompany.com/mic/2010/profile/frito-lay).

That said, we see this as an ongoing journey for us and are always looking at ways we can continue improving one step at a time. For the SunChips brand, we are trying to proactively share the steps we are taking (through partnerships like the one we have with Current) with the hopes of encouraging other companies and consumers to get involved.

Again, thanks for the feedback.
Carrie Walsh

oh noes the evil corporation is blah blah blah.... sun chips are fuckin awesome, I don't care if they're made out of people I'm going to keep on eating 'em. meanwhile, get off your high horses, we've all been eating gmo's for years and no on is growing an extra head. well except for that girl on the discovery channel, but you can't blame that on pepsico or dow or whoever the hated flavor of the week is. better living through science...get used to it.

Hey everyone,

We're all excited to welcome SunChips on board as a sponsor of Current Green. While some may disagree, sponsorships such as these are an important part of our business.

Most importantly, we're thankful that the folks at SunChips value the type of dialogue and discussion that takes place on Current Green. This is the place to discuss and share green stories and videos that are important to you, and their sponsorship helps continue to make this a possibility.

Mario
Online Community

Didn't you know? GREEN is now the new 'trend.' That is why it is disappointing to see so many falling for the greenwashing PR now being peddled by companies that have done nothing over the last five decades but pollute and toxify this planet. To think they suddenly had an attack of conscience is laughable. It is all about MONEY.

When I joined Current it felt like we ALL owned it, now it feels like we are guests.
Advertising is essential but it could be ethical, social and environmental responsible especially in the GREEN section of Current.

There are plenty of ethical products out there that can be advertised but I guess they don't pay as much as the big corporation Pepsico does.
And that's where I feel like we are being exploited. The famous profit over people criteria is being applied and logos substitute people.

Yeah, current isn't exactly the target market for that kind product. Wonder what they were thinking.

Voting up. I don't like it either. But I doubt a staff member will even bother to respond here since they more than likely don't care. As it is, the longstanding members here who break their asses to get important information out here are virtually ignored to place puff up front. I find my motivation to post here slipping away more every day. And that's sad, especially since the other day I stated I still had hope for this site and station.

"We've all read about some pretty extravagant experiments involving DNA and gene splicing-Dolly, the cloned sheep, for example- but we thought such activities were confined to scientific laboratories. In fact, the results are on our tables. All this races through my mind as Joanna sits there with her bag of SunChips. 'Don't you want to know what it is, exactly, that you're putting in your body?' I say.

She eats some more chips, says 'No,' and hands me the bag, on which is printed a toll-free number you can call with questions. I dial. A nice woman picks up the phone, and, when I ask if there is any genetically modified food in SunChips, puts me on hold.

While holding, I become sorely tempted to eat a SunChip myself. I take one out of the bag and inspect it. A crispy little shard. What harm could it do? I pop one in my mouth. Delicious. While I'm on hold, abysmal soft rock croons in my ear. In the end, I'm told that someone will have to call me back. No one calls me back.

Thus begins an absurd ritual: Every day that week I buy some SunChips, get put on hold, and proceed to devour them while waiting to find out if they are bad for me. I buy the 'small' single-serving bag, which had mysteriously ballooned to the size of a throw pillow a few years ago.

Finally a woman from the Frito Lay Customer Hotline retums my my call. 'I just wanted to know if there is any genetically modified food in these SunChips,' I ask.

'To tell you the truth, I don't know,' says the woman. 'There's no way to tell. About half of the corn crop is genetically modified, and we buy from various contractors. Whether a given batch has genetically modified components or not varies from one to the next.' "
http://www.biotech-info.net/Beller_smells_rat.html