{"id":173171,"date":"2025-08-25T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173171\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T02:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:02:08","slug":"dr-oz-urges-canada-to-toss-aside-court-ruling-to-save-the-ostriches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173171\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz urges Canada to toss aside court ruling to save the ostriches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Oz <\/a>is begging the Canadian government to toss aside a court ruling last week that gave it the go-ahead to kill 400 ostriches over bird-flu worries.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s Doctor\u201d \u2014 who has made it his latest mission to save the giant birds alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr<\/a>. and New York City supermarket magnet John Catsimatidis \u2014 acknowledges that the ostriches had been infected but notes they survived and need to be studied, not slaughtered.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe they\u2019ve got secrets that can help other birds [and] more importantly, humans,\u201d Dr. Mehmet Oz said Sunday on Catsimatidis\u2019s 770 WABC radio program, \u201cCats Roundtable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Mehmet Oz holding up a phone showing a photo of President Trump. AP<\/p>\n

Oz wants the ostriches transported to the US and has even offered to safeguard them at his Florida ranch. Radek \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

The latest development in the battle over the birds occurred last week when a court in Canada ruled <\/a>that the country\u2019s Food Inspection Agency could cull hundreds of ostriches to prevent the spread of H5NI avian flu.<\/a> The case is being appealed to Canada\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow is it that all these birds survived this horrible illness,\u201d Oz said Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have secrets in them that we can learn from, and it makes perfect sense for America and Canada to cooperate on this \u2014 we can do all kinds of research,\u201d said Oz, a heart surgeon dubbed \u201cAmerica\u2019s Doctor\u201d by onetime devotee TV titan Oprah Winfrey and who now heads President Trump\u2019s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.<\/p>\n

Oz wants the ostriches transported to the US and has even offered to safeguard them at his Florida ranch.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe they\u2019ve got secrets that can help other birds [and] more importantly, humans,\u201d Dr. Mehmet Oz said Sunday on Catsimatidis\u2019s 770 WABC radio program AP<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the kind of thing you should do if you\u2019re truly a curious person. And the MAHA [Make America Healthy Again]<\/a> movement is about being curious,\u201d the doc said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA curious person would say, \u2018Can we learn from these birds?\u2019 The answer is yes. A courageous person would find a way to get them to America. And a compassionate person would share the wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catsimatidis has said he joined the fight to save the birds as an animal lover, while RFK Jr. has owned an emu and cited science in his support of Oz\u2019s battle.<\/p>\n

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A total of 69 birds died at the ostrich farm at an Edgewood, British Columbia, farm in December and January, Canadian media reported.<\/p>\n

The farmers say the flock is now healthy, but the Canadian Food Inspection Agency claims the cull is necessary because flocks exposed to the avian virus could mutate and spread.<\/p>\n

Canada also must be vigilant to prevent the spread of bird flu to keep faith with its trading partners.<\/p>\n

Oz acknowledged the Canadian government\u2019s concern but said the herd of ostriches in question is a \u201cunique\u201d case and that authorities shouldn\u2019t foreclose research on the birds could lead to a \u201ca possible solution to help the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Universal Ostrich Farms, which owns the herd of ostriches, has an application to the Supreme Court of Canada for another stay of the cull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz is begging the Canadian government to toss aside a court ruling last week that gave it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[42340,2147,69,98670,210,24589,98671,159,67,132,68,1154,837,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-173171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bird-flu","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-dr-oz","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-john-catsimatidis","14":"tag-robert-kennedy","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-us-news","20":"tag-wildlife","21":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115086946736135117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}