Consider Me Charlotte — Because CFIA Won’t Silence This Story.

I’m tired of people making excuses for what happened.
Whatever anyone thinks went on before — none of it justifies what the CFIA did. Nothing. What happened to those animals was unacceptable by every standard of farming, ethics, and basic humanity.

I didn’t personally hear the birds myself, but I watched every video from the people who were there. I listened to the witnesses who stood outside all night and described what they heard — the panic, the crying, and the repeated shots.

Those witnesses reported over 900 shots, even though CFIA claimed there were only about 400 birds. That alone tells the truth: birds were being killed beforehand, quietly removed in blue bins, and the rest were finished during the final push.

Witnesses said the birds cried through the night.
In the morning, there were still survivors.
Instead of helping them, they kept shooting.

I’ve read the CFIA’s own protocols — step by step — the ones meant to prevent suffering. They violated almost every one. I have the official PDF and I will share it, because the public deserves to see how far outside the rules this went.

This wasn’t humane.
It wasn’t controlled.
And it wasn’t how real farmers operate.

Ask any farmer: you only ever put down the animals that are sick or suffering. You don’t wipe out an entire flock. You don’t starve them. You don’t let them deteriorate. You don’t destroy years of breeding, feeding, and care.

Farmers actually love their animals.
CFIA did the opposite.

And the family will never get back the years of investment — the feeding, the care, the work. Anyone who’s raised chickens or ducks understands exactly how long it takes before you ever see a single egg. It’s time, money, and heart.

So no — I’m not going to sit quietly while people excuse it.

There is no justification.
There is no “protocol” that explains this.
The more you see, the clearer it becomes: this wasn’t just mishandled — it was a disaster created by the very agency that was supposed to protect both animals and farmers.

And if anyone needs a simple way to understand where I stand?

Think of the story Charlotte’s Web.
Charlotte didn’t have power or authority — she had truth, compassion, and the courage to speak when the animals couldn’t.

So if you need a comparison, consider me the Charlotte in this story —
because someone has to speak for the ones who couldn’t speak for themselves.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4dx6gbhgp54gmdk4cp2ki/ecp-avian-influenza-virus-poultry-other-livestock-operations-doc-en.pdf.pdf