Police have warned that the growing furore around a Canadian ostrich farm – fanned by animal rights activists and prominent allies of Donald Trump – has led to intimidation, harassment and death threats against businesses in a small British Columbia town.
Universal Ostrich Farms, near the town of Edgewood, was ordered in May to cull more than 400 birds, amid fears of an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu, and earlier this week officials seized control of the business. Sixty-nine birds have already died after the outbreak of a flu-like illness, but on Wednesday Canada’s supreme court issued an interim stay on the cull order as it weighed whether to hear the case.
