{"id":160631,"date":"2025-09-22T04:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160631\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:01:19","slug":"u-s-conservative-commentator-offers-to-relocate-bc-ostriches-facing-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160631\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. conservative commentator offers to relocate BC ostriches facing cull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted September 21, 2025 5:34 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t2 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>An ostrich farm in the B.C. Interior has got further support from right-wing American influencers when another online commentator added his voice, saying he would like to \u201chelp the ostriches out there in Canada\u201d and relocate them to Texas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298208_703_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C., has been calling on supporters to gather at the property to save about 400 ostriches at the farm after<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11417490\/cull-400-bc-ostriches-go-ahead-court-of-appeal-rules\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered the cull of the birds following an outbreak<\/a> of avian flu last December.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator Chris Sanders says in a Facebook video that he is offering a couple of his ranches, and he\u2019d like to help move the ostriches to Oklahoma, Texas, and South Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders says he is calling on truck drivers to help him save these ostriches.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298209_554_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Pasitney, a spokeswoman with the farm, says she is aware of Sanders\u2019 comments, and she is exploring that option now.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Supporters flock to B.C. ostrich farm in the wake of upheld cull order'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758513678_65_WEBPIC_6P_OSTRICH_FARM_PKG.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:14<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSupporters flock to B.C. ostrich farm in the wake of upheld cull order\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pasitney also says in a Facebook post on Sunday that she thinks the CFIA will carry out the cull today, and she is asking people to flood calls with authorities to tell them to \u201cstand on the right side of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11435470\/canadians-arent-mad-at-america-anymore-were-hurt-suspicious-and-moving-on\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758513679_159_Trump-Carney-counter-tariffs.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanadians aren\u2019t mad at America anymore. We\u2019re hurt, suspicious, and moving on\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11436984\/renewing-mortgage-bank-of-canada-rate-cut\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758513679_7_BoC-Sept-2025.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRenewing your mortgage? What the Bank of Canada\u2019s rate cut means for you\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CFIA has refused to release details or timing of any operation.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the first time the farm was thrust into the global spotlight, as <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11195400\/avian-flu-ostrich\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote a letter to the president of the CFIA in May<\/a>, asking the farm to be spared from a planned cull.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, the U.S. secretary for health and human services, says in the letter to Paul MacKinnon that there would be \u201csignificant value\u201d in studying the ostriches\u2019 immune response to avian flu.<\/p>\n<p>The farm lost bids to stop the cull in Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, and last week was denied another stay of the cull order while it prepares to apply for leave to go to the Supreme Court of Canada, an application that must be made by Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 21, 2025 5:34 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,52204,990,2845],"class_list":{"0":"post-160631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-ostrich-cull","12":"tag-ostrich-farm","13":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}