SAFE-until proven otherwise

I recently caught an article from msnbc about how the FDA will try and be more open about genetically engineered foods and drugs placed on the market. This is a crippled baby step (sorry for the imagery) in the right direction, however, this doesn't really seem like it will help anyone make an educated choice about the products they are buying since there will be no labeling on the GE products themselves. In order to obtain information about what products are genetically altered you would need to visit the FDA website and look them up (great more people surfing the net at the grocery store).
Furthermore, the FDA said they will not allow any GE products on the market without submitting them to scrutiny by independent advisers at a public meeting. Also they will "not approve any application until we are convinced of the safety and effectiveness. The public should rest assured that we are not going to be rushing any decisions." OH good! I feel so reassured now, I thought maybe GE foods might slip through the bureaucratic cracks like MSG (generally recognized as safe) or Aspartame (breaks down to formaldehyde and also linked to brain cancer) or something like that.
The main point is that the FDA and the government at large, are ignoring the consumers desire and right to know what they are purchasing. We already have labels informing us of the nutritional content and ingredients as well as possible allergen contents of products, why can't we get them to place a simple GMO (genetically modified organism) label on the package as well? I know they will posture that they are building a better product and there is nothing to be concerned about. You know what? We've been "building a better product" for hundreds, even thousands of years through cross breeding (various breeds of like animals) and cross pollination (various types of familial plants), that doesn't concern me too much, but playing god with unlike species and genus, cutting and pasting together plants and animals? I think I'll be concerned! Not to mention the fact that these "Better" products can and I would venture to say will infect the general population of fauna and flora and likely cause a great deal of damage, just look at the dilemma with GMO canola in Canada and how it has repeatedly infected the fields of organic farmers and ruined their financial well-being. Animals will find a way out of their cages, plants will find a way to spread their seeds, they will create a new problem. Look at the Africanized Honey bee (killer bee to most of us) they infest domestic colonies and take over the hive everywhere they go, destroying the indigenous species. and this was just from people traveling across the sea, just imagine with us more purposefully imposing our ideas on nature.
The other "noble" proposal behind GMO products is that they will help underprivileged areas of the world with higher productivity of crops and thus greater availability of foods and income. That would work if they 1. didn't have to pay for the products or at least didn't have to pay a higher price for it. 2. They were permitted or even capable of saving some of the seed for next planting as farmers have already done for so long. 3. The products actually perform as they are supposed to, thus making the higher cost worth while.
No instead we see farmers paying higher prices for seed that grows GMO plants that DON'T perform better, thus losing their money and in cases such as India's cotton farmers, losing their land. We see products like Roundup Terminator seeds that have genetic alterations to cause their offspring seeds (those produced by the mature plant) to be worthless for planting, thus you have thousands of corn farmers having to constantly buy more seed every year, usually at a higher price. This is detrimental to third world farmers that rely on saved seed just to make it to the next planting.
Sorry folks, I'm not buying your logic, and you can be damn sure that I'll do all I can not to buy your Frankenstein products either, so you can keep your corn!
-g