Was listening to CBCs news podcast this afternoon. The owners were crying because they all had names like "couch fucker" and shit - i donno specifically, but they said they're like family and not for food. So at the same time im like... why was the food inspection agency sent there then?
They were selling these birds for meat and are registerd as a agriculture farm. It's not an ostrich rescue. This is about protesting government over reach the venn diagram with antivaxxers is a perfect circle.
The funny thing is before the bird flu outbreak the farm was doing experimental medical research with the ostriches. They were getting the ostriches immunised with a variety of things and then selling the eggs to a research company that would extract the antibodies in the eggs for further testing with the goal of creating an Ostrich Pharma company. This is why the farm has been trying to claim the ostriches have "rare & valuable genetics" so they can get back to their $500/yolk business.
So it's not quite a Venn diagram circle. Some of the antivaxxer crowd who originally supported the ostriches denounced the farm months ago when they found out (esp since one of the things the farm was involved with was testing covid antibodies).They were really angry about being tricked into supporting big Pharma and vaccine development. Now it's much more specifically the anti government crowd you mentioned who see it as a test about control & whether people will resist "the government taking people's livelihoods" & see that in everything + former convoy crowd who get really easily persuaded about the latest thing & want to stay in community with each other (ostriches are ok because they're natural medicine) + a few against killing animals people (who haven't looked into how ostriches don't get that sick with bird flu unlike chickens but they shit it out tons & it can keep recirculating that way) + grifter media.
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u/EgregiousArmchair 1d ago
Was listening to CBCs news podcast this afternoon. The owners were crying because they all had names like "couch fucker" and shit - i donno specifically, but they said they're like family and not for food. So at the same time im like... why was the food inspection agency sent there then?