PJ The Belt - September 25, 2025


The Canadian Ostrich Farm Scandal EXPOSED! – HIDDEN Facts (Full Story)

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Nearly 400 healthy ostriches have survived an outbreak of avian flu in Canada, but the government still wants to kill them all. The farmers and scientists argue that the birds have the strongest immune system of any animal in the world, and that they could be the key to finding a cure for bird flu. But the Food Inspection Agency says no.

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00:00:00.000 Here, CFIA's in there doing their thing.
00:00:06.000 Turns out that there's a bird here that's had a rope around his neck for the past two
00:00:12.220 hours.
00:00:12.440 They're trying to get him, and every time they go up to the bird, it's running away.
00:00:16.920 Karen would have had it off in two minutes. 0.50
00:00:19.740 Hang on a second. 1.00
00:00:24.180 Damn. 1.00
00:00:30.000 Every time he gets close, a bird runs away. 1.00
00:00:34.780 It's been two hours this guy had been at it.
00:00:37.020 You know, if one of the farmers were in there, 10 minutes.
00:00:39.400 Okay, and not going to be out there suffering, so I'd like to try and discuss with you.
00:00:44.940 An Indian tribe just said that this is unceded territory, and these birds are not to be touched.
00:00:56.000 Wow.
00:00:56.480 Let's talk about the situation with Universal Ostrich Farms in rural British Columbia,
00:01:04.400 and how nearly 400 healthy ostriches almost got wiped out by a government order.
00:01:10.160 Here's the story.
00:01:11.660 Back in December, a few birds on this farm tested positive for avian flu.
00:01:16.600 It was serious.
00:01:17.900 It killed 69 of them.
00:01:20.300 But that was months ago.
00:01:21.760 The survivors, almost 400 of them, they've been thriving ever since.
00:01:26.140 No new deaths, no fresh outbreaks, just strong, healthy animals.
00:01:31.800 Now, any sane person will look at that and say, wait, these birds might hold some answers.
00:01:37.780 Let's study them.
00:01:39.060 But not the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
00:01:42.540 The rulebook says if there's an outbreak, the whole flock must die.
00:01:47.520 Period.
00:01:48.520 They call it stamping out.
00:01:50.620 Doesn't matter that the disease burned through months ago.
00:01:55.080 Doesn't matter that the birds are healthy now.
00:01:58.040 Doesn't matter that farmers and scientists are begging for a closer look. 0.95
00:02:02.360 The policy says kill, so kill they must.
00:02:05.620 Tense moments at an ostrich farm near Edgewood in southeastern B.C. 1.00
00:02:09.500 I hope your family suffers the most imaginable worst thing in the world, just like you're doing to them.
00:02:16.040 As supporters of the farm and its flock of 400 birds come face to face with the agency that ordered their call. 1.00
00:02:22.780 A lot of people want to know why you're a psychopath.
00:02:26.260 Officials with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency arriving at the farm early Monday morning.
00:02:32.960 Along with dozens of RCMP officers as they work to clear the property using a search warrant ahead of executing its depopulation order.
00:02:41.780 The representative for the farm has been very clear that she doesn't want any violence.
00:02:48.660 That she doesn't want anybody hurt.
00:02:50.800 And so there has been some rhetoric online that we certainly have seen some threats.
00:02:55.940 But we haven't seen any of that today and we don't anticipate that.
00:03:00.120 It is just heartbreaking because every RCMP officer out here has the right, the ability to say,
00:03:05.820 just lock hands and say, no, not this time.
00:03:09.440 I believe they know there's no virus in these birds now.
00:03:14.960 That's how nature works.
00:03:17.080 We've got the animal with the strongest immune system of any animal in the world.
00:03:22.200 With the CFIA on site preparing to depopulate the flock, time for the birds is quickly running out.
00:03:28.440 Meaning plans to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada
00:03:31.580 and filing the necessary application by the October 3rd deadline is looking less and less likely.
00:03:38.040 And that's where things get outrageous.
00:03:40.920 The farm owners, Karen Espersen and Dave Belinsky, tried everything.
00:03:47.360 Court challenges, petitions, even offers to move the flock.
00:03:52.580 But the federal courts backed the CFIA, ruling that the extermination was necessary.
00:03:59.180 It looked like the bulldozers and the killing crews were days away.
00:04:02.640 And then, a last-minute twist.
00:04:06.560 Just today, the Supreme Court of Canada hit pause.
00:04:10.380 An interim stay.
00:04:12.280 It doesn't overturn the lower courts, but it stops the CFIA from killing the birds
00:04:17.960 while the justices decide whether to hear the full case.
00:04:22.420 For now, the ostriches live.
00:04:24.580 But this story doesn't stay in Canada.
00:04:28.420 It goes south of the border, too.
00:04:30.660 RFK Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, actually weighed in back in May.
00:04:36.940 He sent a formal letter to Ottawa saying that these ostriches have significant scientific value.
00:04:43.540 He argued that the survivors could hold natural immunity that might help unlock better tools
00:04:49.200 against bird flu, maybe even human flu.
00:04:52.720 And he wasn't alone.
00:04:54.320 Senior officials from the FDA and the NIH were on board, too.
00:04:59.040 They urged Canada, don't kill, study.
00:05:03.200 Don't destroy, learn.
00:05:05.260 Mr. Secretary, one last thing.
00:05:07.300 I sent something to your office on ostriches in Canada where these are ancient animals
00:05:15.680 and they have a natural healing process, antibiotics in their eggs.
00:05:21.280 And they're in danger because the pharmaceutical companies want to kill them
00:05:27.140 because they don't want the solution.
00:05:28.360 Yeah, and, you know, I think that was a huge mistake to liquidate that ostriches. 1.00
00:05:36.160 These animals live to 50 years old.
00:05:38.460 They're not badly affected by bird flu, and we should not be killing them.
00:05:42.960 We should be studying them to find out, you know, how these are alive.
00:05:45.380 Well, they're still alive.
00:05:47.380 Mr. Secretary, they're still alive.
00:05:49.320 I'm trying to talk to the courts up there that they should not take the influences they're getting
00:05:56.060 from the pharmaceutical companies and killing them.
00:06:00.360 And whatever help your office can do, we welcome it. 0.98
00:06:04.660 I support you 100%, Matt.
00:06:07.160 I'm horrified by the idea that they're going to kill these animals.
00:06:10.360 It went further.
00:06:12.580 U.S. allies and private backers floated a relocation plan.
00:06:17.900 Dr. Oz even offered sanctuary land in Florida.
00:06:21.860 The idea was simple.
00:06:23.920 Move the flock south. 0.98
00:06:25.160 Secure them and test their blood, their eggs, and their antibodies.
00:06:30.600 But Canada?
00:06:31.920 Canada stuck to the rulebook.
00:06:34.220 The government said policies come first.
00:06:37.200 In other words, better to be consistent than right, I guess.
00:06:42.500 And here's the part no one says out loud.
00:06:45.100 Who benefits from that kind of mindset?
00:06:48.540 Big pharma.
00:06:49.320 Because, let's face it, if a flock of ostriches can survive a flu strain and teach us how, that's
00:06:56.540 a threat to billion-dollar vaccine markets.
00:06:59.460 This isn't a conspiracy theory.
00:07:02.220 It's common sense.
00:07:03.800 The healthy survivors could have been a natural laboratory.
00:07:08.080 They could have provided data on resistance genetics and immunity.
00:07:13.360 Instead, the government wanted to wipe them out in the name of policy.
00:07:18.720 That doesn't sound like science.
00:07:21.240 That sounds more like protecting entrenched interest.
00:07:24.560 Look, nobody denies that sick animals need humane management.
00:07:29.660 But that's not what this is anymore.
00:07:33.040 These ostriches are healthy.
00:07:34.960 They've been healthy for months. 0.99
00:07:37.400 Killing them doesn't fight the flu. 0.94
00:07:39.680 It erases evidence. 0.99
00:07:41.740 Evidence that might save flocks, farms, maybe even people down the line.
00:07:47.700 And it's telling that it took the Supreme Court to slow this down.
00:07:51.640 That's how far gone the system is.
00:07:53.800 The highest court in the country has to step in just to stop bureaucrats from destroying
00:07:59.240 healthy animals before the science can even be done.
00:08:02.920 So here's the question.
00:08:05.140 What kind of government chooses blind obedience to a manual over the chance to learn something
00:08:11.680 that might be helpful?
00:08:13.420 What kind of government refuses to work with international scientists and U.S. health leaders
00:08:18.500 when they offer help?
00:08:20.440 What kind of government tells its citizens, trust the science?
00:08:23.800 While bulldozing the very science in front of them.
00:08:27.420 This isn't just about ostriches.
00:08:29.820 It's about values.
00:08:31.860 Do we protect bureaucracy or do we protect possibility?
00:08:36.040 Do we follow outdated rules or do we ask better questions for a change?
00:08:42.080 For now, Universal Farms has a reprieve.
00:08:45.620 The CFIA still holds custody and they're still pushing for the call.
00:08:49.680 The Supreme Court has given them until October 3rd to respond.
00:08:54.980 After that, the justices will decide if this flock gets a fair hearing or a death sentence.
00:09:01.060 But one thing's clear.
00:09:03.240 This farm in rural B.C. has exposed a bigger truth.
00:09:07.240 That our government would rather destroy than admit that they may be wrong.
00:09:11.940 That big pharma would rather see potential cures buried than lose their monopoly on treatments.
00:09:19.800 And that sometimes, common sense is the most radical thing of all.
00:09:24.620 Let the birds live.
00:09:26.300 Let the science work.
00:09:27.420 And stop letting bureaucrats and big corporations decide who and what gets to survive.
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