Meet Scott David

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Scott David

Director of Investigations

Scott David is the Director of Investigations, providing support to Animal Outlook’s current investigators as they work undercover to expose animal cruelty. He also speaks at events nationwide about his firsthand experiences as a former investigator. Scott was an undercover investigator for Animal Outlook (formerly Compassion Over Killing) for two years. His investigative work has offered the first hidden-camera look inside a US lamb slaughterhouse, and at a Hormel supplier slaughter plant, exposing the horrors of a cruel USDA high-speed slaughter pilot program that could be expanded to facilities nationwide. Scott’s investigative video from inside a Mountaire Farms chicken slaughterhouse in North Carolina, exposing shocking animal abuse, was filmed as a dangerous ag-gag law made its way through the state legislature — revealing the dangers of this type of legislation aimed at preventing investigations and whistleblowing. His footage has shed light on the plight of animals in slaughterhouses across the country, resulting in media headlines from the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, CNN, and more in the US and internationally.

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Scott David spent two years as an undercover investigator for Animal Outlook (formerly Compassion Over Killing), filming hard-hitting footage that exposed animal abuse at three slaughterhouses across the country. His work has resulted in media headlines from the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, CNN, and more in the US and internationally. Now retired from the field, he provides critical support to Animal Outlook’s current undercover investigators.