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Food inspection agency serves warrant on BC ostrich farm facing cull of 400 birds
['The Canadian Press', "Canada'S National Observer"]
Canada's National Observer
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has served a warrant on a British Columbia ostrich farm where nearly 400 birds have been ordered culled, requiring the farmers to leave or risk being removed from the property.
The agency official says they expect to take "a couple days to set up" on the farm and that the owners could feed the birds but then must leave.
Pasitney is standing in a pen with the ostriches while the official relays the warrant on the other side of the fence, with the farm's supporters heard yelling in the background.
The dispute between the owners and the federal agency dates back to the outbreak of avian flu on the farm in December that would go on to kill 69 ostriches and lead to a CFIA order that the remaining 400 birds be killed.
The fight to save the animals became the focus of multiple court battles, with the farm insisting the ostriches are now healthy and deserve to be saved for scientific research, while the CFIA says the birds were infected with a more lethal strain of the avian flu.
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