EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA - An ostrich farm in British Columbia's Interior whose birds face a cull order has the support of a right-wing American influencer, who is asking for help from truck drivers to transfer the birds to locations in the United States.
Conservative commentator Chris Sanders said in a Facebook video that he would like to "help the ostriches out there in Canada" and relocate them locations in Oklahoma, Texas and South Dakota.
The Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C., has called on supporters to gather at the property to save about 400 ostriches as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency prepares to destroy the birds following an outbreak of avian flu last December.
Sanders, who is a commentator on the American News Network social media platform, said the birds can be