{"id":12588,"date":"2011-10-05T10:07:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12588"},"modified":"2011-10-05T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:50:58","slug":"founder-of-animal-cruelty-investigation-agency-speaking-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/10\/founder-of-animal-cruelty-investigation-agency-speaking-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of animal cruelty investigation agency speaking at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12590\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12590\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12590  \" title=\"Nathan Runkle\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nathanrunkle.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Runkle\" width=\"147\" height=\"233\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Runkle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The founder of the U.S.-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercyforanimals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mercy for Animals<\/a> will speak at Brock next week.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Rundle will give a free public talk in the Sankey Chamber at Brock from 12 noon to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11. The presentation, titled &#8220;Inspiring Compassion: Putting Our Ethics on the\u00a0Table,&#8221; will focus on how industrial farming has changed the way cows,\u00a0pigs and chickens are treated and how our food choices can become a\u00a0powerful tool in preventing cruelty to animals.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy for Animals is a farm animal protection group that conducts undercover investigations and education. It has 75,000 members and a growing list of celebrity supporters, including Ellen DeGeneres.<\/p>\n<p>Rundle&#8217;s talk is sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/undergraduate-programs\/sociology\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Sociology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the U.S.-based Mercy for Animals will speak at Brock next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[59,31,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12594,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions\/12594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}