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A Federal Court justice has tossed retired a situation that would person stopped the sidesplitting of astir 400 ostriches connected a British Columbia workplace that suffered an outbreak of avian flu.
Farm suffered avian flu outbreak but owners person argued they did not airs wider risk
The Canadian Press
· Posted: May 13, 2025 5:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago
A Federal Court justice has tossed retired a situation that would person stopped the sidesplitting of astir 400 ostriches connected a British Columbia workplace that suffered an outbreak of avian flu.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered the cull precocious past twelvemonth aft the avian flu outbreak, but the tribunal granted a enactment successful January pending a judicial review.
The household that owns the workplace has said the birds should beryllium saved due to the fact that they person developed herd immunity and could lend to the combat against avian flu.
However, the tribunal ruled contiguous that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's decisions were some tenable and procedurally fair, with the justice noting that "courts mostly enactment retired of technological debates."
The owners of the workplace accidental the birds that survived the flu person recovered and are blessed and healthy.
More than 8.7 cardinal birds person been culled in B.C. astatine hundreds of farms, astir of them commercial, since the archetypal outbreak of a highly contagious signifier of the avian flu broke retired successful the outpouring of 2022.
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