Businessman John Catsimatidis in New York in 2024. He says he and a friend have contributed about US$35,000 to a legal fight to stop the cull of a flock of about 400 ostriches.
A New York billionaire who is an avid supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump says he is helping fund the legal battle by a British Columbia ostrich farm against an order to cull their flock of about 400 birds after an avian flu outbreak.
John Catsimatidis says he and a friend have contributed about US$35,000 to the legal fight by Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood in B.C.’s Interior, to stop the cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency .
Catsimatidis says in an interview that he heard about the farm when the co-owner’s daughter, Katie Pasitney, called the New York radio station that he owns, and