Overview

• Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal last week upheld the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s plan to depopulate about 400 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C.
• Universal Ostrich Farms has applied to the Supreme Court of Canada for a stay while it pursues further relief.
• Dr. Mehmet Oz publicly called on Canada to forgo the cull and offered to relocate the flock to his Florida ranch for research.
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Catsimatidis voiced support for studying the surviving birds rather than euthanizing them.
• CFIA says culling is necessary because exposed flocks can enable H5N1 mutation and threaten trade and public health, noting 69 birds at the farm died in December and January.