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CFIA to cull 400 ostriches at B.C. farm as owners pursue court stay

Ottawa insists the measure is vital to protect public health; the farm has rejected U.S. relocation proposals, seeking a court injunction.

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, attends a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington.
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Overview

  • The Canadian Food Inspection Agency plans to depopulate roughly 400 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farm after 69 birds died from an H5N1 avian flu outbreak in December.
  • Universal Ostrich Farm owners filed a Federal Court appeal this week seeking a stay of the culling order, alleging procedural errors in the agency’s review.
  • U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz offered to relocate the flock to Oz’s 900-acre ranch in Florida, but the owners have declined to move the birds abroad.
  • Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald said the CFIA is following due process and defended the cull as essential to safeguard human health and the domestic poultry sector.
  • Hundreds of protesters have gathered at the Edgewood farm to block the order, but no legal or administrative action has halted the planned depopulation.