New tool helps monitor pig welfare during transport

Pigs and other livestock are travellers these days, being brought from one farm to the other – or to the slaughterhouse. For various reasons, it’s imperative to make sure that the animals are well during transport as well. A new tool can help to oversee and respond quickly should conditions change. Transport represents a point in a farmed animal’s life when many experts say welfare is most at risk. “There are greater variables, such as weather and temperature, when livestock are in tran