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Biodiversity trapped in cage by reductionist science

by free nature from the box
Corporate industry benefits from reductionist science when attempting to measure biodiversity. Nature does not live in a box and cannot be separated into internal and external components. When a monkey is removed from a rainforest the lack of native plant air alter the biochemistry of the primate, resulting in her slowly dying inside when s/he cannot escape the four walls that deprive her of freedom. The same pharmaceutical industry that benefits from testing chemicals on animals also tests chemicals on human prisoners in the form of psychiatric medication.
Reductionist science is usually funded by industry in the process of evaluating an ecosystem for biodiversity (all plants, animals, fungi, protista, bacteria) and abiotic factors (water moisture, air content, soil chemistry, climate, localized weather, etc.). The sampling method used by reductionist science involves a squared plot for landscape/forestry, and an individual species removed from habitat and locked in usually square cage..

The comparison of different plots/species/individuals to test null hypothesis requires separating biodiverse life forms in sampling selection from one another and surrounding environment. There are moments of change imperceptable to the scientists vision that are not accounted for in the sample. Biocomplexity of living organisms cannot be isolated from their habitat and still remain the same. In an outdoor field study, the infinite variables bring change about with bifurcation points and the butterfly effect..

Butterfly flapping wings is changing air circulation patterns around its wings. This may not matter on most days, but today a variation of moisture begins to start a cycle of air movement on a larger scale. The probability may be slight, but the effect is there once happened, and when the storm system develops after the domino effect, it is a greater magnitude than the original butterfly's flapping wings..

Bifurcation points are qualitative changes in a species that are not measured by reductionist science quantitative sampling that assumes no variability among the sampled species. Bifurcation points occur in unstable systems and since the natural world is a dynamic system, bifurcation points could occur anytime..

Locking a living breathing animal/human in a cage is going to cause changes in their body. We are all made of water and living tissue, having plants and air and soil around us is connecting with our own body structure..

Strange attractors are elements in the system that stabilize the system to maintain equilibrium. This is the daily existence of the primate in the rainforest foraging for fruit, nuts and seeds, being aware of leopards and periodically play fighting with other members of the primate tribe..

This equilibrium is broken when the animal research hired poacher removes the primate from the rainforest. Not only does the primate experience fear, rage and sadness, the seeds of many rainforest plant species are no longer transported throughout the rainforest..

Cancer in humans can be caused by exposure to many different toxins over the person's lifetime. A nineteen year old with cancer is an exception to the normalizing "bell curve" of reductionist science. This "bell curve" was also the main theme of Murry/Hearst book that attempted to justify racism since non-white people were at a lower point on the curve. The so called statistical analysis that supported the normal "bell curve" is the reductionist approach that attempts to divide race from class..

When pharmaceutical corporations attempt to prove their product cures cancer caused by exposure to toxins in the environment (often petrochemical), they rely on animal testing. Whether monkeys, mice or rats, these animals are subjected to torture in the name of the pharmacuetical profit. Reductionist science attempts to prove cures by statistical analysis without looking at surrounding factors. What if the person with cancer started eating, living or thinking in a more positive way? Self healing may be more effective than the petrochemically derived pharmaceutical product that claims credit for the occasional recovery..

The time is now to free all animals (including human animals) from their squared box of imprisonment..

We will no longer submit to punishment from the petrochemical/military/ system of oppression..
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