William Warner and his company, Warner Transport, failed to convince the Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal that his driver acted responsibly in trucking 190 hogs to Conestoga Meat Packers in warm and humid weather last summer.
But the tribunal did reduce the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s proposed fine of $13,000 to $10,000.
Warner said his driver twice reduced the load size – from 220 to 200, then to 190 – because it was hot.
But the evidence at the hearing was that there was overcrowding in some of the compartments of the transport trailer and some pigs died or were euthanized at the plant near Breslau.
