Vancouver’s Lucas Robinson was making a 575-kilometre trip east to the small community of Edgewood, B.C., with steaks, hamburgers, watermelon and his dog.
The trucker said he felt a responsibility to protect nearly 400 ostriches owned by Universal Ostrich Farms that have been ordered culled after a lengthy court battle that brought international attention to the small community in the B.C. southern Interior.
“I don’t know all the ins and outs. That’s partly why I’m going up there. But, you know, they’re trying to study their antibodies and the eggs and all sorts of things that the big pharma and other interests (groups) don’t want happening,” Robinson said Friday in Kelowna, B.C., on a stop in his journey…