A federal appeals court in Canada has upheld an order to cull about 400 ostriches at a British Columbia farm where dozens of birds died amid an avian flu outbreak last year -- ostriches that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz have asked Canadian authorities to spare.

The three-judge panel ruled on Thursday to dismiss the appeal of Universal Ostrich Farms, a 65-acre, family-owned operation located about 55 miles north of the U.S. border. The farm's owners, Karen Espersen and Dave Bilinski, have been fighting to keep their ostriches alive since December, when several ostriches started falling ill and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a cull order for the remaining flock.

A total of 69 ostriches died over the course of 36 days, according to the owners, about 15% of the original fl

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