Science or slaughter? Ostrich farmers expose more hypocrisy in CFIA's plans to cull healthy flock

Edgewood, B.C., ostrich farmers Karen Espersen and Katie Pasitney explain why the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's plans defy both logic and science.

Drea Humphrey
  |   May 20, 2025   |   5 Comments

In a heartfelt interview with Rebel News, Universal Ostrich Farms co-owner Karen Espersen and her daughter, Katie Pasitney, share their deep connection to their exotic flock of 400 healthy ostriches — birds the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has pledged to cull without further notice to the farm.

Beyond loving and caring for the birds like family, the farmers are gravely concerned that the state is jeopardizing vital scientific research involving the ostriches — research that includes extracting robust antibodies from ostrich eggs to explore their potential in defending against viruses such as COVID-19 and avian flu.

"To bring something natural back to the animal sector and the human health factor — and that was the antibodies," said Pasitney.

Despite mounting public and political pushback, the CFIA has confirmed it will proceed with culling the entire flock due to concerns over avian influenza, even though the ostriches are asymptomatic. The family emphasizes that the remaining birds appear to have developed natural immunity, making them invaluable to ongoing virus-prevention research.

To document and report on these developments, arrangements have been made for me to remain on-site at the farm, embedded with the growing number of protestors camping out in a last-ditch effort to stop the cull. If you value this kind of frontline journalism, please help us continue exposing government overreach by contributing at SaveTheOstriches.com.

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Based in British Columbia, Drea Humphrey reports on Western Canada for Rebel News. Drea’s reporting is not afraid to challenge political correctness, or ask the tough questions that mainstream media tends to avoid.

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  • Olga Seminutin
    commented 2025-05-22 21:13:35 -0400
    They dont want any actual vaccines from anyone except their corrupt collaborators, il tell you why.
    Like mobile phones are for tech spying, 2nd for use, vaccines are now mostly a pretense, a vehicle for graphene nanotechnology.
    This is an insidious military experiment, the way this stuff behaves in the human body is nothing short of evil science fiction nightmares. This agenda fits right in with their globalist plans for overt control and numbing/ dumbing down the pple.
    Read about this stuff, find out for yourself what it does.
    Sure, some pple die from it, but theyre certainly willing to break a few eggs to make their graphene powered psychforce of potential zombies omelette..
    And when did they start implementing this experiment?
    You guessed it, 2020..
  • Fran g
    commented 2025-05-22 17:11:46 -0400
    This ostrich family farm is awesome. They are heros, this study has to continue. We must get back to natural immunity for animals and humans. Definatly WEF UN WHO etc and Big Pharma are killing us slowly with all vaccines for humans and animals. They want to depopulate by culling our food. They are evil rich monsters.
  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2025-05-21 21:11:17 -0400
    This governmental overreach must be a warning to ALL farmers and even pet owners. Who are these cubical dwellers to decide 400 ostriches must die? Whoever is the MP for the aria must get involved. If the CFIA gets away with this, they’ll go after other animals and make people’s lives hell.
  • Joanna Gil
    commented 2025-05-21 17:45:03 -0400
    Indiscriminate killing of healthy animals, for the sake of exerting power over the farmers, is criminal. All these government pencil pushers should be fired immediately. They are clearly against science. They are hellbent on destroying a Canadian business. They are not even being logical. Why are they still on the government payroll?
  • Terri Carter
    commented 2025-05-20 20:33:46 -0400
    There is a LOT of people watching. !