EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Numerous gunshots rang out in the night at a British Columbia ostrich farm, punctuated by shouts of "Murderers!" and "Stop!" as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency moved ahead with a cull of hundreds of the birds.

The shooting at Universal Ostrich Farms near Edgewood, B.C., on Thursday night was coming from inside an enclosure made of hay bales where the CFIA had herded scores of the ostriches.

A handful of the farm's supporter were gathered at the side of the highway overlooking the enclosure, some crying, others yelling at the CFIA workers and RCMP during the gunfire, which began after darkness fell.

The operation came after the CFIA said it was moving ahead with the "complete depopulation and disposal" of the flock of hundreds of ostriches, more t

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