The Federal Court of Appeals has denied an application of another order of stay to delay a sacrifice of approximately 400 ostriches in a British Columbia farm that was beaten by an avian influenza outbreak.
Katie Pasitney, spokesman for Universal Ostrich Farms, says that the ruling means an interim stay awarded last weekend to give the farm time so that the legal presentations “no longer exist.”
Leave the farm in Edgewood, BC, without legal protection against the sacrifice procedure.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered La Matanza on December 31, 2024, during an H5N1 avian flu outbreak that killed 69 ostriches.
The farm has been fighting the order of sacrifice since then, but lost its case in the Federal Court and in the Federal Appeals Court.
He had been looking for another stay to set up a challenge in the Supreme Court of Canada.
But the Court of Appeals says that it has been denied, with Judge Gerald Heckman without taking into account the affidavits submitted by the farm in response to the presentations by the CFIA on the request for stay, in line with what he says they are judicial rules.
A BC Ostrich farm has lost its case to save its birds from a sacrifice order issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in January. A Federal Court has rejected the appeal of the farm to avoid the sacrifice of its flock, which had been infected with the avian flu. The owners of the farm say they will not give up, and have asked the supporters to meet them this weekend to “face destruction and relieve love.”
