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July 15, 2025
It has been 182 days of no illness amongst our almost 400 healthy ostriches.
As We embark on our journey home from Ottawa.
Thank you Robert Kennedy, Dr. Oz and John Catsimatidis For continuing to work with me to try to save these animals lives and see the potential for USA and Canada. Thank you for seeing the opportunity rather than shielding opportunity like this from the world that could save so many lives, animal and human. There is a big problem when we keep eradicating our animals. With no testing, we are standing up for science that evolves and policies need to evolve as well.
These letters are profoundly important. THey expose a critical crossroads between scientific progress and outdated policy—with real consequences for global health, food security, and animal welfare.
Save our animals from being killed that are the survivors.We can’t just keep killing everything.
What’s Happening?
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have formally urged Canada’s government to stop the mass culling of a scientifically unique ostrich flock in British Columbia.
These ostriches have survived over 180days after H5N1 detection without symptoms or further spread, breaking all known data records for bird flu.
This makes them potentially the first known avian survivors of H5N1 at this scale in North America, opening the door to groundbreaking research.
Why Does This Matter?
1. Unique Scientific Value
These ostriches could hold clues to natural immunity or viral resistance that could help humanity develop better treatments, vaccines, and understanding of not just bird flu, but also other viruses like COVID-19, HIV, and hepatitis. The U.S. wants to study this flock to advance medical research globally.
2. A Visionary Offer from the U.S.
The United States is offering:
- Direct collaboration with NIH, CDC, and FDA scientists
- Funding and advanced research tools
- Access to U.S.-based laboratories and therapeutic infrastructure
- International scientific partnerships that could benefit all nations, including Canada
3. Canada’s Blockade Despite this offer, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is still pushing forward with its outdated “stamping out policy,” which means killing the ostriches to contain avian flu, regardless of the unique survival of these birds. The ostriches are a recovered flock and being met with resistance to independent testing with the threat of 6 months in jail and a $200000 fine per Ostrich being tested.
This policy ignores new science and is eroding trust between farmers, scientists, and government agencies.
Canada risks destroying an opportunity to lead in next-generation virology research and may inadvertently set back the global fight against zoonotic diseases. Instead By using the stamping out process they are killing off natural immunity creating more zootonic diseases and viruses that have the ability to become more of a threat.
What’s at Stake?
Public Health: These birds could hold the key to better treatments for bird flu, and possibly for viruses that mutate into human pandemics. Using better methods than currently being offered.
Scientific Progress: The destruction of this flock would erase a rare natural experiment that cannot be recreated in labs.
Farmers’ Rights: This is also about protecting farmers from government overreach, and promoting policies that support innovation, not punishment.
The Bottom Line
The U.S. is asking for collaboration to save these Ostriches for scientific research that could help the whole world. Canada, by sticking to outdated policies, is risking not only these animals’ lives but also critical medical discoveries.
This is about more than one farm—it’s about changing the system to work for science, farmers, and the future of global health.
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