Subhead:“We’re sticking our necks out for the birds,” Oz said. The US health official and celebrity doctor has offered up his 900-acre land in Florida to “get them out’’ and away from Canada’s plans to cull the healthy and thriving research birds.#
Opposition to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) plan to so-called “humanely depopulate” a healthy flock of ostriches in remote Edgewood, British Columbia, has grown from grassroots protesting to international political debate and concern.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former TV host and Trump administration health official, is the latest to jump to the defence of Universal Ostrich Farms’ efforts to save their flock of nearly 400 ostriches slated for destruction by the CFIA, based on controversial PCR tests the federal agency conducted on two of the farm’s deceased ostriches late last year.
