{"id":13628,"date":"2014-10-03T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T22:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2014-10-20T13:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:04:33","slug":"agprovides-campaign-fuels-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=13628","title":{"rendered":"#AgProvides campaign fuels food drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The #AgProvides food drive sponsored by Fort Hays State University\u2019s Block and Bridle club has officially ended, but the message is still being shared.<\/p>\n<p>Over 500 cans were donated to the Tiger Food Exchange through this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis campaign was, and continues to be, important because it is our job to advocate for agriculture,&#8221; said Morgan Hammel, president of Block and Bridle. &#8220;We want consumers to know the truth behind agriculture and not the myths people like to portray.<\/p>\n<p>Ag producers and everyone else involved in agriculture deserve recognition for all the hard work we put in because they are feeding the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very happy to see the amount of students that got involved and contributed to the cause,\u201d said Garrett Steed, Block and Bridle advisor.<\/p>\n<p>#AgProvides <a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=13048\">was sparked<\/a> by the announcement of PETA\u2019s new campaign \u201cFast Against Slaughter\u201d targeting the agriculture industry.<\/p>\n<p>PETA\u2019s campaign is being released Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate students from Texas Tech University created the campaign to encourage schools across the country to spread positive facts about agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Block and Bridle joined the campaign and has been sponsoring a food drive for the past two weeks and held a table at the Student Union with a slideshow stating agricultural statistics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see #AgProvides being an annual event,\u201d Steede said. \u201cHopefully, next year we can surpass our 500 can donation.<\/p>\n<p>As long as people are hungry, agriculture will be there to provide every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #AgProvides food drive sponsored by Fort Hays State University\u2019s Block and Bridle club has officially ended, but the message is still being shared. Over&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3398],"tags":[3058,3238,3059,69,106,3237,3236,2774,1495,290],"class_list":["post-13628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-agprovides","tag-ag-provides","tag-block-and-bridle-club","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-garrett-steed","tag-morgan-hammel","tag-tiger-food-exchange","tag-tigermedianet","tag-tmn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13628"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13755,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions\/13755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}