Overview
- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency plans to depopulate about 400 surviving ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farm under its stamping-out policy to curb H5N1 spread.
- Owners have filed a Federal Court appeal seeking a stay after a judicial review in mid-May upheld the culling order.
- U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz offered to move the flock to Oz’s Florida ranch, but Canadian authorities declined.
- Daily protests continue at the Edgewood farm, with supporters including a B.C. teenager who survived a domestic H5N1 infection.
- The CFIA has not disclosed a timeline or methods for the euthanasia, citing producer privacy, while affirming humane depopulation measures.