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 Americans are getting involved in the case because they care about the animals.

He says the more he heard about the situation at the farm, the more interested he became, causing him

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