Civil Beat reporters may want to start writing more about a lesson in critical thinking instead of playing the conspiracy card.  It doesn't even take a science lesson to see how bogus this buffer zone issue is.  

If farms were truly poisonous, we should be seeing signs of this first in animals.  Take for example, the rose-ringed parakeets on Kauai.  The population started off at a few in 1968.  These birds eat the seeds from these farms and care nothing about what was sprayed and when.  They are 566 times smaller than a man so they'd be more likely to exhibit pesticide toxicity if RUPs are indeed an issue.  

Well, if the fields are poisonous, why aren't these birds dead by now or suffering chronic exposure to pesticides? Why aren't there masses of rat and wild pig deaths also? Instead, those few birds exploded to over 5000!  Can Earthjustice, CFS, and any other anti-GMO activist explain that one???