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BC Ostrich Farm Is Ground Zero for Change as Family Reels From Shooting Cull

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Tarpaulins cover objects on the ground inside a holding pen at Universal Ostrich Farms near Edgewood, B.C., on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. The pen had been filled with live ostriches a day earlier, before shooting broke out overnight, as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency began a cull of the flock. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Brenna OwenWith the flock of several hundred ostriches on the British Columbia farm co-owned by her mother shot dead in a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Katie Pasitney said she is focused on creating change for other farmers.Standing on the highway overlooking the field where the cull took place Thursday night, Pasitney said the CFIA’s so-called stamping-out policy is “broken” as it fails to prevent mounting outbreaks of avian influenza in B.C. and other parts of Canada.

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