EDGEWOOD, British Columbia, Canada (PNN) - November 9, 2025 - “This is a plea out to the world. Stop this massacre from happening,” went the unheeded plea for sanity and decency from Katie Pasitney of family-owned Universal Ostrich Farms in British Columbia.
Who was threatening the massacre? The wanton killing didn’t occur at the hands of brutal Islamic fundamentalists; it was rather the handiwork of your friendly Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), all in the name of Public Health.
In the name of Public Health, based on two allegedly positive PCR tests pulled from dead birds almost a year ago, 300+ reportedly healthy birds have now been shot dead, and a family’s livelihood is now destroyed.
Via ABC News, “A Canadian federal agency said Friday it has shot dead all ostriches at a British Columbia farm, fulfilling a 10-month-old cull order over a bird flu outbreak. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a news release on Friday a professional marksman was used and it was done in a humane way.”
“Owners of the farm in the southern interior community of Edgewood, British Columbia, have been fighting the order in the courts, arguing the surviving ostriches show no signs of illness and should be spared.”
“A holding pen that was filled with ostriches on Thursday appeared still and empty of live birds on Friday, and no ostriches could be seen anywhere else on the property. Instead, the pen where the shootings took place was filled with long blue tarpaulins covering objects on the ground that were also shrouded with black sheeting.”
For the hundreds of pilgrims who had come to the farm in so many months - and the thousands more who joined the livestreams - the birds were more than large-eyed livestock; they were symbols of a government that had overreached during the pandemic, with mandates and quarantines, and was going further still. The episode underscores a legacy of the pandemic in the West: eroded trust in government agencies and rising vaccine hesitancy, and how partisan politics have complicated public health.
The family fought the legal battle all the way to the Supreme Court, even offering to have their entire flock tested again, which they swore was healthy, only to have the court refuse to even hear the case, giving the final green light to the authorities to turn their guns on the birds.
Killing animals in order to safeguard animal health is the way of dictators and crazy Marxists.
