Reuters, May 29, 2025The Trump administration has terminated a $590 million contract with Moderna, initially awarded by the Biden administration in January, for the late-stage development of a bird flu vaccine and the option to purchase doses. This decision follows a $176 million award last year from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
Substack, Shirley Guertin, May 26, 2025The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) enforces policies under the Health of Animals Act that allow unannounced inspections and rapid livestock culling without farmer recourse.Suspected H5 avian influenza triggers immediate testing and, often within 48 hours, mass culling (“depopulation”) of entire flocks—sometimes based on just a few sick birds.The CFIA...
New York Post, May 26, 2025Dr. Mehmet Oz, a prominent TV personality and Trump administration official, has joined efforts to save approximately 400 ostriches facing culling in British Columbia due to avian flu concerns. Partnering with billionaire John Catsimatidis and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Oz has offered his 900-acre...
While questions are always welcome, imagine the progress we would all make if every citizen held the government to this same level of scrutiny. What is the goal here? To save healthy animals from an inhumane and unjustified death.Our shared mission is simple and powerful: to protect healthy animals, and ultimately people, from an unnecessary,...
Federal agency says dates for cull will not be shared with public in advanceCBC News | May 18, 2025The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says it is going ahead with a cull of nearly 400 ostriches living in southeastern B.C. over fears of avian flu.It doubled down on its decision on Saturday, despite the local...
Viva Frei, May 15, 2025This is the update in the British Columbia Universal Ostrich Farm case. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued an order to KILL nearly 400 HEALTHY ostriches in December 2024, on the fear that they might be infected with the Avian Flu. That was December 2024. Remember that date.The farm took the...
A Federal Court ruling has rejected the farm’s bid to prevent the killings, which were ordered after an outbreak of avian fluNational Post | May 14, 2025 Operators of a British Columbia ostrich farm where 400 birds have been ordered culled said Wednesday that dozens of supporters have converged on the scene, as the federal...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has ordered that the birds be killed.Nelson Star | May 15, 2025The Regional District of Central Kootenay board voted on May 15 to not accept ostrich carcasses from a farm in Edgewood at any of its landfill sites until the birds are re-tested for the avian flu.The motion requires the...
RDCK Observer, May 15, 2025 Transcript:Chair, Aidan McLaren-Caux: There’s nothing that we can do beyond advocacy. Because it’s not, I don’t want to be the person to say it’s not our problem, but it’s outside of our power. I know that might not be the answer you want to hear. Personally, I wish there was...
CBC News | May 14, 2025 Universal Ostrich lost court case seeking to overturn order from Canadian Food Inspection AgencyThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says the cull of a flock of ostriches in southwest B.C. will move forward in order to fight the threat of avian flu, but it won’t be providing details of...
