Why the conspiratorial right rallied around a flock of ostriches

For months, I've been glued to what's happening at a small ostrich farm in Canada. As bird flu tore through a flock at Universal Ostrich Farm in British Columbia last year, regulators ordered a slaughter. But what should have been a routine disease response, it's sad, but a fact of life for farmers, turned into something else entirely.These farmers refused to comply. They dragged the government to court, and they built a following of antivaccine activists, farright media, and anti-government groups who turn ...