Don't Label Me! (unless I'm a Genetically Engineered Salmon...)

I don't really understand why we NEED genetically altered things in our world. Not enough salmon to go around? Eat something else. Not enough other stuff to go around? Grow your own or -gasp!- don't eat. That's how it used to work, but now that we've mastered creating creatures and plants out of laboratories, the adage of 'make do' seems to have disappeared from our culture. Hey, if you want to eat GE salmon, go right ahead. But shouldn't we at least be given the option of reading on the label of that salmon that it has been created by man, not nature?

This GE salmon is the first  genetically engineered fish for consumption that is about to hit the US market. The argument around its release into the food system is mainly focused on the labeling of said salmon, and the FDA is standing strong on the platform that says 'no negative impact to salmon, environment, or man from consuming the salmon has been found.' So, they have fought violently against simply putting on the fish a label that tells consumers it has been genetically engineered. They don't want us to know? What are they hiding?

It all sounds pretty fishy to me, and I certainly won't be consuming any weird-science salmon. However, even if you don't mind eating it, wouldn't you at least like to be granted the decency and respect of your own personal intelligence to see some type of identification on that salmon that allows you to use your free will to make a choice about what you put into your body?

Hmmm...