Canada’s Cruel Ostrich Cull On Hold … For Now
This story was originally posted on August 27, 2025 on X.
Amuse – Canada is preparing to slaughter life not because it is diseased, but because it dares to survive. At Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, British Columbia, 400 healthy ostriches, including a baby ostrich named L, face extermination within the next 30 days [stayed for now].
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has rejected every appeal, including pleas for additional testing, scientific study, or relocation to the U.S. The Federal Court of Appeal has sided with Ottawa, and the Supreme Court is unlikely to intervene. This is no longer about health. It is about bureaucratic pride.
Late last year, 69 ostriches died from avian flu. But since January, not one bird has perished. The survivors appear to have developed resistance. In any rational world, this would be a breakthrough, a chance for science to study immunity and craft better vaccines. Instead, CFIA ordered mass destruction within 41 minutes of the first test results. What could have been a medical milestone has become a death sentence.
The cruelty is familiar. In Canada, nearly 5% of human deaths each year are state-sanctioned euthanasia, rising to more than 7% in Quebec. If a nation shows such disregard for human life, why expect mercy for animals?
Bureaucrats see creatures not as living beings but as compliance problems. They obey procedure, even when common sense screams for compassion. Peanut the squirrel was once killed in New York under similar pretenses. Now SOL, a baby ostrich, still considered a baby at four years old, as ostriches on Katie’s farm can live to be 50 years old, faces the same fate. In each case, the state killed not to protect, but to assert control.
This farm is no factory. Katie Pasitney and her family have raised ostriches for decades, treating them as stewards, not profiteers. The birds are named, with many over 30 years old, and none are raised for slaughter. Yet Ottawa has reduced them to disposable objects. Even as judges expressed sympathy, they shrugged and declared themselves bound by law. Sympathy without action is cowardice.
The international response has been overwhelming. US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appealed directly to Canada to spare the flock. Dr. Mehmet Oz offered to relocate them to his Florida ranch. Billionaire John Catsimatidis donated $35,000 to cover legal fees. Americans have said clearly: we will take them. Yet Canada has refused. Why? Because mercy would set a precedent. If one flock escapes bureaucratic extermination, others may demand the same. That threatens the system, and the system will not yield.
But these ostriches are not a threat. They are symbols. They survived one of the deadliest avian flu outbreaks without further losses since January. That resilience should inspire research, not destruction. The truth is simple: life without bureaucratic permission terrifies those in power. They prefer conformity over survival, death over disorder.
The public must not remain silent. Write to Prime Minister Mark Carney. Demand he exercise the Royal Prerogative of Mercy to spare this flock. Share the story of Lulu, a baby ostrich who deserves a future.
Visit https://saveourostriches.com/ to support the fight • Katie’s farm needs your financial support and help bringing awareness to her cause. Also, we’re having Katie Pasitney from Universal Ostrich Farms on our Third Rail X Space this Friday August 29th at 9AM CDT. Please join us:
If Canada proceeds, it will not only kill birds. It will kill an opportunity for science, compassion, and common sense. It will declare once again that in Ottawa, paperwork matters more than life. Do not let Lulu become the next Peanut. Do not let bureaucrats erase this flock in the name of pride. The ostriches of Edgewood deserve to live.
SF Source American Liberty Sep 2025