Video: Student, Slaughterhouse Workers Beat, Stab, and Urinate On Cows; PETA Urges Schools to Intervene

For Immediate Release:
December 17, 2025

Contact:
Moira Colley 202-483-7382

A whistleblower has provided PETA with deeply disturbing video footage recorded by slaughterhouse workers—including an apparent Peach County School District student—as they shot, beat, stabbed, and urinated on animals, reportedly at Georgia’s Best Processing outside Fort Valley, and shared the footage widely with other staff. In response, PETA today is rushing kindness-to-animals educational materials, courtesy of TeachKind—PETA’s humane education division—to schools in the district. PETA today also contacted the Peach County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Department of Agriculture to request that they investigate and bring appropriate charges.

As PETA notes in a letter that accompanies the education materials to Peach County School District Superintendent Dr. Jesse Davis, some of the images were edited to mock the animals’ suffering—for example, one video, which shows a worker shooting a cow and stabbing the animal in the neck, is set to music and features hearts and other graphics. Other disturbing acts seen in the videos include a worker urinating on a cow’s face, a worker striking a cow in the head with a pipe, and a cow kicking her legs and struggling to stand, apparently after being shot. PETA’s letter urges Davis to take swift action to address the disturbing conduct and stresses the need for humane education that fosters empathy and respect for all living, feeling beings, such as TeachKind’s “Empathy Now,” a guide to preventing violence by young people.

“A young person’s choice to be violent and willfully cause living, feeling beings pain, fear and humiliation are a blood red flag that requires serious and immediate attention as well as criminal charges of cruelty to animals,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “Compassion can be cultivated, and PETA stands ready to help Peach County Schools teach their students that every sentient being, whether a cow or a classmate, deserves empathy and respect.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.