US EditionDr. Oz offers to relocate B.C. ostriches facing cull, but owners decline help
- Starting in 2024, nearly 400 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, British Columbia, are set to be culled following a directive from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in response to an avian flu outbreak.
- Following the death of 69 ostriches from a highly contagious virus, the farm owners, along with U.S. health officials including a former TV host and the current health secretary, sought alternative options to prevent the culling of the remaining birds.
- Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads the agency responsible for Medicare and Medicaid programs in the United States, proposed moving the ostriches to his Florida ranch; however, the farm owners declined the offer, believing the birds have developed herd immunity and hold important scientific value.
- Kennedy wrote to the CFIA to spare the birds for research on their immune response, calling it "significant value" and an "opportunity for future insights into immune longevity."
- The CFIA confirmed it will proceed with a "humane depopulation" despite protests and legal appeals, stressing public health and trade stability concerns over individual losses.
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300: Senior Trump administration figures, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz, are lobbying Canada to spare over 300 ostriches set to be culled due to bird flu concerns at a British Columbia farm. The farm’s owners dispute the extent of the outbreak, arguing most birds are healthy. Oz has offered to relocate the ostriches to his Florida ranch. Canadian officials insist they must be killed to protect public health and the poultry indust…
Dr. Oz offers his 3.6 km2 of land in Florida to Canadian ostriches for euthanasia.
Dr. Oz offers to relocate B.C. ostriches facing cull, but owners decline help
The operators of an ostrich farm in southeastern British Columbia say United States health official and former television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz has offered to save the birds from an impending cull by relocating them to his ranch in Florida.
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