Article by Joel Salatin, the Lunatic FarmerApr 3, 2025 – My post today originates form Edgewood, British Columbia, where Universal Ostrich Farms faces a Canadian government assault on their 300 healthy ostriches. Farm owner Katie Pasitney and her friend and sleuth Connie Shields have quite a tragic story. I’ve had two lengthy conversations with them and here...
North American Ag, Season 5: Episode 207Apr 3, 2025 – In this North American Ag Spotlight podcast episode, host Chrissy Wozniak interviews Katie Pasitney from Universal Ostrich, a family-owned ostrich farm in British Columbia, Canada. The farm, which has been raising ostriches for 35 years, is facing a crisis due to a government order to...
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...
URGENT UPDATE – OUR FIGHT FOR JUSTICE CONTINUESWe are in the fight of a century to protect our farm (research facility), our animals and the future of farming. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is not only pushing for mass culling of our healthy Ostriches (that is based only on 2 PCR tests December 30th)...
Feb 26, 2025 – CFIA arrived unannounced with two agents and three RCMP officers in two cruisers. They said they were inspecting the biosecurity area and disposal pile, which was fine because nothing had changed. Karen Espersen @ Universal Ostrich Farms Feb 26, 2025 – CFIA arrived unannounced with two agents and three RCMP officers...
Re:Public · Feb 20, 2025 Katie Pasitney, daughter of Karen Espersen, owner of Universal Ostrich Farms in the remote town of Edgewood, British Columbia, has been ordered to cull their entire herd of 400 ostriches. If they don’t cull them, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will.The ordeal began in December 2024 when an anonymous person...
CSSA, Feb 18, 2025 Nowhere in CSSA’s mandate will you find the word “Ostrich” yet we find ourselves defending a flock of 400 Ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, British Columbia, from an unjust government kill order.[i]“CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) expected us to walk out and kill every one of our 400 birds...
TORONTO — A federal judge has granted a temporary reprieve to about 400 ostriches that were facing a deadline on Saturday for them to be killed at a British Columbia farm hit by an outbreak of avian flu.By: Hannah Alberga, The Canadian PressJan 31, 2025A federal judge has granted a temporary reprieve to about 400...
CBC News · Andrew Kurjata · Federal Court judge staves off Feb. 1 cull deadline as convoy of supporters embraces their cause. Dave Bilinski and Karen Espersen of Universal Ostrich pose with a portion of their flock of birds after learning a deadline to have them killed over avian flu concerns has been put off by a federal...
Rebel News · Drea Humphrey · January 24, 2025In case you missed it, the federal government has order the culling of some 400 ostriches, after an avian flu outbreak. It threatens to destroy a family-run ostrich farm spanning decades … all in the name of protecting public health.Founded in 1995, Universal Ostrich Farm sells bird oil, feathers and...
