September 22, 2025, 03:31:50 A.M. MST Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) letter dated September 22, 2025, to David Bilinski and Karen Espersen, co-owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Ltd, in response to the farm’s “Request for Ministerial Reconsideration” to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food on September 11, 2025. Even though this is a Ministerial Request...
Viva Frei, May 15, 2025 This 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...
Dear friends and supporters, We are absolutely devastated to share today’s Federal Court decision, issued on May 13, 2025. The court ruled in favour of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), upholding their order to destroy our beloved ostriches and rejecting our plea to save them. The court’s decision accepted the CFIA’s justification under the...
May 6, 2025 – Katie Pasitney provides an update from Universal Ostrich Farms. Visit Us at:301 Langille Road, Edgewood, BC Your support is appreciated as we await the court’s decision. The full video can be found here.
April 17, 2025 – Katie Pasitney from Universal Ostrich Farms provides an update on the family’s legal battle with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to save their ostriches. Share This Story
Katie Pasitney from Universal Ostrich Farms Day 2 of the Judicial Review @ 701 West Georgia Street, Vancouver BC. Katie provides an update from Federal Court, where the case of Universal Ostrich Farms against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is underway. Good morning everybody. Day Two in Vancouver and we just want to thank...
Universal Ostrich in Edgewood had faced Feb. 1 deadline to cull birds after H5N1 was detected on farm CBC News · Akshay Kulkarni · Posted: Apr 15, 2025 Lawyers for a B.C. ostrich farm, which has been ordered to cull its entire flock over avian flu concerns, told a Federal Court judge on Tuesday that officials’ order to depopulate the...
A controversial order to cull a flock of ostriches at a West Kootenay B.C. farm is now the subject of a judicial review in federal court. Global News, by Klaudia Van Emmerik Posted April 15, 2025 7:30 pm They live on a farm near Edgewood, B.C., in the West Kootenay region, but the fate of...
Katie Pasitney from Universal Ostrich Farms Day 1 of the Judicial Review @ 701 West Georgia Street, Vancouver BC. Katie provides an update from Federal Court, where the case of Universal Ostrich Farms against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is underway. Good morning everybody. We are here and we are ready, so thank you...
April 2, 2025 – Update from Katie Pasitney on their legal battle with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to save their ostriches. Katie Pasitney @ Universal Ostrich Farms April 2, 2025 – Update from Katie Pasitney on their legal battle with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to save their ostriches. Transcript:We’ve been going...
