Thursday, March 12, 2026

RFK Jr. voices support for Canadian ostrich farm facing bird flu cull

By David B. Strickland Poultry Times Editor dstrickland@poultrytimes.com

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WASHINGTON — The Canada Federal Court of Appeal has issued a stay of the cull of birds at a British Columbia ostrich farm that has faced an outbreak of avian influenza. And the farm has also picked up an ally in Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Health and Human Services Department secretary. Kennedy notes that the birds can be studied to learn more about the effects of the virus.

Universal Ostrich Farm in Ottawa has been fighting back against an order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency since the farm’s initial outbreak in December, and Kennedy has been voicing. . .

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