Is it a good thing to not have any living creatures on/around our produce?

 

Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee

       In this NPR article, written by Robert Krulwi, a well known journalist for the NPR. He writes about the photographer, David Liittschwager, who puts a metal one-cubic-foot  box in different types of eco-systems for a full 24 hours. Then he records all the living creatures that go to and from the box. When he does that we can as many as 30 different types of plants, 70 different kinds of insects and a couple of small animals. He also states that if he would walk a few feet the different kinds of living things would change to be different kinds of plants and insects. Then he puts this box in a cornfield in Iowa. The box only had in the 24 hour period, 6 different types of bugs, but there was like only 2 or 3 and two different plants, the corn and a single mushroom.

      I think this source is really beneficial to the topic we're learning about, Food politics. This shows that food that we eat "corn" is spayed with so much pesticides that only a few things can live in this environment. Is it good for the soil when they, the food industry, does this? I don't think so. Also the soil isn't getting any of the nutrients it needs, that it usually gets from the wild. If this soil is contaminated with so much pesticides, does that mean that the corn absorbs this? I think it does but only a little, even though we have seen no evidence of this corn being contaminated. Another bad thing, is that will the soil be usable in the future, with this much use and chemicals in the ground. What supprises me the most, is the shear amount of creatures that David Littschwager found in this one-cubic-foot box. He said he would find more but he can't see them with the naked eye.