The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will move ahead with the planned cull of 399 birds at a British Columbia ostrich farm despite the regional district’s refusal to accept the birds’ carcasses at any of its landfills.
Universal Ostrich Farm, located in Edgewood, B.C., has been in conflict with CFIA regarding the culling of 399 birds following the farm’s unsuccessful court case to protect them.
The federal inspection agency told The Epoch Times in an email it plans to move ahead with the cull, despite the Regional District of Central Kootenay passing a resolution last week not to allow the CFIA to dispose of ostrich carcasses in its landfills pending further testing of the birds for avian flu….