Brickbat: Head in the Sand

Katie Pasitney and her mother, owners of the Universal Ostrich Farm in British Columbia, were arrested for defying a Canadian Food Inspection Agency order to leave their farm and surrender their birds as part of a response to a bird flu outbreak. The agency fears the disease could spread, so it plans to cull nearly 400 birds. The farmers have resisted, claiming the remaining ostriches are immune. The case took a turn when the Secwepemc Signatory Tribe declared the property unceded land and issued its own cease and desist to protect the animals and land. The case will now go to the Supreme Court of Canada, which halted the cull in the meantime.

Comments

[SQRLSY]

If only Trump had had His Way with Canada, and conducted the Canschluss, NONE of this kind of shit would be happening! Everyone in Inner Islamic Canuckistanistanistanistanistan would live together in PervFected Peace and Harmony, including all of the mosses, mooses, meece, nice-mice, geese, AIDS viruses, Greater Northern White-Speckled Baby-Puke-Yellow-Toned Bacteria, Tinned Mackerel, ostriches, camels, binturongs, dugongs, DEEP doo-doo-doogong-gongs, you name shit... ALL of them would live together peacefully and be tariff-taxed out of their Canschlussed ASSES, and therefor, be incredibly RICH, to boot!

[Chumby]

Will BC officials use MAID to cull citizens as a response to help prevent a flu from spreading?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The farmers have resisted, claiming the remaining ostriches are immune.

OH I SUPPOSE THEY GAVE THE OSTRICHES HORSE PASTE EH

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Paper masks were the answer.

[mad.casual]

Personally, I thought the story needed more gorillas and Chinese needle snakes.

I don't know how "Indigenous tribes claim unceded land to protect non-native species from unjustified enforcement of viral culling." doesn't translate to "You're not helping.", but I don't speak Canadian.

"Don't you guys have bodies of your own ancestors who died of smallpox to dig out from under a schoolyard or something?"

[Medulla Oblongata]

Peanut the squirrel wishes a judge had stopped NY enviro-cops from "shooting the dog".

[AT]

Either way, Katie Pasitney and her mother are screwed.

It's only a matter of which sacred cow gets to eat the birds.