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2025-01-31 20:25:41

🚨 Emergency 🚨
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has ordered 400 healthy ostriches (#nostriches) to be destroyed and disposed of on February 1, 2025 (TOMORROW), because "Bird Flu".
https://saveourostriches.com/
https://youtu.be/hmpblfLHzSc
2 PCR tests returned positive (as they're designed to do) and they refuse to test older birds in the flock that have developed natural immunity. Interesting side note which might explain why a government agency might want to destroy these birds:
“High-quality antibodies have been successfully extracted from ostrich eggs by Kyoto Prefectural University president Dr. Tsukamoto,” the government of Japan stated in a 2022 social media post. “Ostriches are hardy animals with strong immune systems, and at 1/4000 the price of antibodies from other animals, their high-quality antibodies are easier to mass-produce, meaning they may show the way forward for the modern world, where responses to viruses like COVID-19 and the economic problems they cause are global goals.” read more here https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ostrich-farmers-fight-to-save-herd-from-avian-flu?attribution_id=sl%3A80e09934-7413-429b-acfb-2f7015cc19d3&lang=en_CA