Paul Shapiro

Paul Shapiro is the Humane Society of the United States' senior director of its factory farming campaign. He directs an effort to convince retailers, food service providers, and universities to end their use of eggs from caged birds and expand their vegan options. Additionally, the HSUS factory farming campaign played a significant role in helping enact Proposition 2 in California, a 2008 ballot initiative that phases out veal crates, battery cag... more

Paul Shapiro is the Humane Society of the United States' senior director of its factory farming campaign. He directs an effort to convince retailers, food service providers, and universities to end their use of eggs from caged birds and expand their vegan options. Additionally, the HSUS factory farming campaign played a significant role in helping enact Proposition 2 in California, a 2008 ballot initiative that phases out veal crates, battery cages, and gestation crates in the nation's largest agricultural state. The campaign was also central in Proposition 204, a successful 2006 Arizona ballot initiative that phases out gestation crates and veal crates. It has also helped pass laws against gestation crates in Oregon and both gestation and veal crates in Colorado. Prior to working at the Humane Society of the United States, while still in high school in 1995 Shapiro founded the animal advocacy organization Compassion Over Killing and served as its campaigns director until 2005. The... less