Originally published via Armageddon Prose:

"This is a plea out to the world. Stop this massacre from happening," went the unheeded plea for sanity and decency from Katie Pasitney of family-owned Universal Ostrich Farms in British Columbia.

Who was threatening the massacre?

Had al-Qaeda infiltrated BC?

Had some Wahhabi cleric issued a fatwa against birds?

No, the wanton killing didn't occur at the hands of brutal Islamic fundamentalists; it was rather the handiwork of your friendly Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), all in the name of Public Health™.

In the name of Public Health™, based on two allegedly positive PCR tests pulled from dead birds almost a year ago, 300+ reportedly healthy birds have now been shot dead and a family's livelihood is now destroyed.

Via ABC News (emphasis added):

"A Canadian federal agency said Friday it has shot dead all ostriches at a British Columbia farm, fulfilling a 10-month-old cull order over a bird flu outbreak.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a news release on Friday a professional marksman was used and it was done in a humane way.

Owners of the farm in the southern interior community of Edgewood, British Columbia have been fighting the order in the courts, arguing the surviving ostriches show no signs of illness and should be spared…

A holding pen that was filled with ostriches on Thursday appeared still and empty of live birds on Friday, and no ostriches could be seen anywhere else on the property.

Instead, the pen where the shootings took place was filled with long blue tarpaulins covering objects on the ground that were also shrouded with black sheeting."