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Earthling Ed (Ed Winters) Birth name is Edward Gaunt. is a UK-based animal rights activist and educator. He is co-founder of Surge, which organizes The Official Animal Rights March, and runs a popular YouTube channel under the moniker Earthling Ed.

His activism involves speaking tours at universities, as well as Socratic-style discussions with ordinary people.[1][2] He also runs The Disclosure Podcast,[3] in which he interviews both vegans and ideological opponents. He has appeared on national news outlets, such as BBC, speaking about veganism.[4][5][6]

Activism

Earthling Ed focuses much of his activism engaging in open conversation with non-vegans.[7][8] He has also done exposé work on animal agriculture, including filmed protests at farms and a 2017 documentary Land of Hope and Glory.[9] At the time of writing (2024), he has over 435,000 subscribers on YouTube.[10][11][12]

Books

  • This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) ISBN 978-1785044243
  • How to Argue with a Meat Eater (and win every time) ISBN 978-1785044489

References

  1. ^ Lu, Grace (11 April 2019). "Speaker Asks: Why Do We Love Dogs, Eat Cows, and Wear Sheep?". The Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Meet Earthling Ed, That Vegan Educator | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  3. ^ "‎The Disclosure Podcast on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  4. ^ Derbyshire, Victoria (29 January 2018). ""The real victims are not the farmers (or animal rights activists) receiving death threats, they're the animals being slaughtered" - says @earthling_edpic.twitter.com/NnjUZka9XD". @VictoriaLIVE. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  5. ^ Pitkin, Eliza (23 February 2022). "Meet Earthling Ed, the vegan activist taking on the meat industry". Big Issue. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  6. ^ Winters, Ed (26 April 2019). "Every argument against veganism | Ed Winters | TEDxBathUniversity". Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  7. ^ Orde, Elena (2018). "Earthling Ed". The Vegan. The Vegan Society. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  8. ^ "The teachers of White Plaza". stanforddaily.com. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  9. ^ "UK Animal Farming Free Documentary | Land of Hope and Glory". landofhopeandglory.org. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  10. ^ "Earthling Ed". YouTube. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  11. ^ Buxton, Amy (4 November 2020). "Who is Earthling Ed and why is he so important?". The Vegan Review. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  12. ^ Hillier, David (5 March 2022). "Meet the 'vegan bros' here to bust the myth that real men eat meat". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2024.

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