RCMP escort CFIA officials to execute search warrant at B.C. ostrich farm
Global News
This comes after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency applied for a search warrant and ordered the cull of 400 ostriches following an avian flu outbreak on the farm.
Tensions are high at Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C., where police are now supporting Canadian Food Inspection Agency officials to execute a search warrant.
The farm says a convoy of police vehicles and waste disposal trucks is parked outside their property.
This comes after the CFIA applied for a search warrant and ordered the cull of 400 ostriches following an avian flu outbreak on the farm.
Protesters remain on the farm to oppose the cull.
On the weekend, right-wing American influencer Chris Sanders said in a Facebook video that he is offering a couple of his ranches, and he’d like to help move the ostriches to Oklahoma, Texas and South Dakota.
Sanders says he is calling on truck drivers to help him save the ostriches.
The CFIA has refused to release details or the timing of any operation.
It wasn’t the first time the farm was thrust into the global spotlight, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote a letter to the president of the CFIA in May, asking the farm to be spared from a planned cull.
