CANADA - A Meat Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says, decreasing the slope of the ramps used to load pigs onto trailers will decrease their risk of fatigue and possible death during transport, writes Bruce Cochrane.Transport is typically the most stressful period during the life of the pig.Dr Luigi Faucitano, a Meat Scientist with the Sherbrooke Research Centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, told those on hand last week for the 2017 Banff Pork Seminar, while death losses during transport in Canada are about half those in other regions, such as the United States, any such loss is an expense to the producer.

　　布鲁斯·科克伦(Bruce Cochrane)写道，据加拿大农业及农产品格业的一名肉类科学家称，对于过去时常运输生猪的拖车，可以通过减少坡道斜率，以此减少运输中的生猪疲倦与约摸的死亡风险。运输阶段通常是猪一生中经受压力最大的时期。加拿大舍布鲁克农业与农产品研究中央的一名肉类科学家Luigi Faucitano博士在上周的班夫猪肉研讨会上曾对在场诸生说：“虽然在加拿大的生猪运输中，死亡损失只占其他国家的一半，譬如美国，但是任何一例损失对于加拿大生产商来说，都是不必要的额外开销。”