{"id":77080,"date":"2022-03-16T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77080"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:44","slug":"coulter-the-war-in-ukraine-is-powerfully-magnifying-our-love-for-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/03\/coulter-the-war-in-ukraine-is-powerfully-magnifying-our-love-for-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"COULTER: The war in Ukraine is powerfully magnifying our love for animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-war-in-ukraine-is-powerfully-magnifying-our-love-for-animals-178867?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202022+CID_911cf3edab5d6a931c2b6061ed8f0474&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=The%20war%20in%20Ukraine%20is%20powerfully%20magnifying%20our%20love%20for%20animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the ways animals and their caregivers are affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA little girl huddles in a bunker, stroking\u00a0her dog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From amid the rubble, blood-stained and shell-shocked people emerge, clutching their pets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A man fleeing a bombed apartment building carries\u00a0<\/em><em>a cat and a goldfish. Some people\u00a0refuse to leave Ukraine without their animals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>War exposes many truths, the brutal and the valiant. The war in Ukraine is powerfully and painfully magnifying the interconnectedness of human and animal lives, and, mercifully, our unrelenting commitment to acting with love, even in the face of lethal danger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Domesticated animals are affected by almost every human decision and those involving violence most of all, whether they\u2019re\u00a0hidden in factory farms\u00a0or captured by the lenses of photographers and broadcast globally.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Animals are\u00a0always affected by war.\u00a0Millions of\u00a0horses and donkeys\u00a0were taken from the farms of poor people to the\u00a0carnage-filled fronts of the First World War\u00a0and pigeons\u00a0were strapped with messages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Even to this day, military working dogs are either\u00a0<\/em><em>celebrated as heroes\u00a0or\u00a0unceremoniously euthanized.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-war-in-ukraine-is-powerfully-magnifying-our-love-for-animals-178867?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202022+CID_911cf3edab5d6a931c2b6061ed8f0474&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=The%20war%20in%20Ukraine%20is%20powerfully%20magnifying%20our%20love%20for%20animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-war-in-ukraine-is-powerfully-magnifying-our-love-for-animals-178867?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202022+CID_911cf3edab5d6a931c2b6061ed8f0474&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=The%20war%20in%20Ukraine%20is%20powerfully%20magnifying%20our%20love%20for%20animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the ways animals and their caregivers are affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[110,522,3126,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77080"}],"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=77080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77082,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77080\/revisions\/77082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}