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#GlobalNews Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) completed the cull of 300 to 330 ostriches on an Edgewood, B.C, farm Thursday night.  The owners of the farm had been fighting the cull, which was ordered after an outbreak of avian flu that killed 70 ostriches.  On Thursday, the last legal roadblock to the cull was lifted after the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the owners' final appeal.  "This is one of the biggest crimes in Canadian history," Dave Bilinski, co-owner of the farm, told Global News on Friday.

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00:00The CFIA has completed the cull of hundreds of ostriches on an Edgewood farm.

00:05The original cull order was issued for Universal Ostrich Farm nearly a year ago after avian

00:11flu hit the flock, killing almost 70 of them.

00:14The farm legally fought the cull, but on Thursday the Supreme Court of Canada ruled it wouldn't

00:20hear the farm's appeal.

00:22The CFIA says professional marksmen were used to cull a herd of 300 to 330 birds Thursday

00:29night in a controlled setting on the farm.

00:33It was also done under veterinary supervision.

00:36This is one of the biggest crimes in Canadian history.

00:40They come here, make a massacre of healthy animals.

00:46Not one of them was ever tested by CFIA.

00:50They are all healthy animals, all producing antibodies worth a lot of money, not in just

00:55cash but for humanity.

00:57The CFIA says the farm is still under quarantine and officials are now working to dispose of

01:03the ostriches.

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