Last stand for the ostriches: Live updates from B.C. farm’s legal appeal against CFIA cull order

Subhead:Follow along during today’s Federal Court of Appeal hearing as Edgewood farmers fight to save their healthy ostriches from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s senseless cull order.#

 

After months of legal battles, public outcry, and a growing grassroots movement, Universal Ostrich Farms’ fight against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) mass cull order has reached a critical point.

Today, July 15th, in Ottawa, the Federal Court of Appeal will hear Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. v. CFIA, where the Edgewood, B.C. farmers hope to overturn a lower court decision that upheld the federal agency’s plans to slaughter their healthy flock of 400 ostriches.

I will be covering the hearing via live-tweet updates, which you can follow here:

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