Overview

• The Federal Court of Appeal upheld the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s depopulation order last week, and the farm’s lawyer plans to seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
• Catsimatidis says he and a friend have put about US$35,000 into the farm’s legal fight and he hosted a news conference with Katie Pasitney and Dr. Mehmet Oz.
• Oz, now the administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, argues the birds could aid research and has offered to house them at his Florida ranch.
• The CFIA ordered the cull in December after an H5N1 outbreak that killed 69 ostriches at the roughly 400-bird farm, and the agency says culling is necessary to limit mutation risk.
• Catsimatidis says he reached out to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and says the president is aware of the case.