Is transportation for farm animals as comfortable as human transportation?
A brief review by Gede Sanjaya Photo by Chook City Introduction Transport of animals is increasing steadily in recent decades, both in national and international levels, in relation to structural adjustment, specialization of production systems, internationalization and globalization of marketing system. Now a day there were many comments about animal transport that needs more attentions to fulfill transport facilities in national and international levels based on the wittiness of scientific research works, workshops and seminars 1 . Transportation is a very complex event which compromises animal welfare and meat quality. Even though important research works have been reported related to animal transport and welfare, many questions are still remaining to be addressed, particularly on the effect of transport time where animals are exposed to different stress inducing factors such as vibration, physical fatigue, injury, noise, high temperature and relative humidity. Just a...
