The Federal Court of Appeals has granted a stay that stops the potential sacrifice of almost 400 ostriches on a BC farm.
Judicial records show that a motion to stop the plans for sacrifice, waiting for an appeal, was granted on Friday afternoon in Ottawa.
The owners of Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, BC, have been fighting a request from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to sacrifice their flock after it was beaten with an avian flu outbreak last year.
Katie Pasitney, whose mother is co -owner of the farm, thanked supporters in a publication on social networks, saying that the “next phase of the battle” will allow the farm to advance for change.
“It’s a good day for ostrurts and it’s a good day for all farmers we are fighting for in all of Canada,” he said in a live video posted on Facebook on Friday.
The difficult situation of the ostriches has called international attention to the farm, and the protesters remain in the property to prevent the sacrifice and activists from denouncing what they call the extralimitation of the government.
The Food Inspection Agency has said that the type of avian flu infection present on the farm is a mutation that is not seen in other parts of Canada.
