A federal judge has granted a temporary stay on the killing of 400 ostriches at a B.C. farm hit by an avian flu outbreak. Justice Michael Battista ruled that the cull order imposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) could proceed to judicial review. The farm argues its ostriches are invaluable for research due to their unique genetic makeup.
A federal judge has granted a temporary reprieve to about 400 ostriches that were facing a deadline on Saturday for them to be killed at a B.C. farm hit by an outbreak of avian flu.
A lawyer for Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. had argued in a Friday hearing in Toronto Federal Court that the ostriches should be exempt from the order because their genetics are the subject of an antibody research study, making them rare and valuable. The CFIA issued the order after avian flu was detected in two dead ostriches Dec. 30 and its lawyer argued Friday that public health concerns outweighed the farm’s position.
The farm's ostriches have been the subject of a research project in collaboration with Dr. Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, president of Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan.
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