Subhead:Chief Reporter Sheila Gunn Reid is headed from Alberta to rural British Columbia, where Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey is embedded as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is expected to carry out a cull of 400 healthy ostriches at any moment.#
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This morning, I’m making an 11-hour drive with a home-built micro trailer on the road to Edgewood, British Columbia.
That’s where Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey is embedded at Universal Ostrich Farms, the site of an ongoing battle between farmers, their supporters and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency over the fate of 400 birds.
Drea has been working around the clock as the CFIA is set to impose a cull on the flock of healthy ostriches — all because the birds were exposed to avian flu approximately 250 days ago.
Now, the birds are healthy, but the CFIA refuses to test them to make sure they’re healthy, or sick, before they kill them. The worst part? These are not birds that are for human consumption, they’re not even birds meant for cowboy boots.
These birds are being used in research for diseases like avian flu, and even COVID-19. If these birds are killed, that research dies, too.
