Ed Winters
British animal rights activist, filmmaker and lecturer · United Kingdom · On the map · Activists · Born 1994 · age 32
Ed Winters turns strangers into vegans on street corners. His polite Socratic method - ask, listen, dismantle - has made him one of animal rights activism's most visible voices, racking up millions of views under the name Earthling Ed.
Ed Winters is read about 32 times a day, in 4 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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, We have created a form of tyranny over the natural world, pillaging, extracting, using and destroying as we please.
It is ironic that we often believe that empathy and complex emotions only really exist in humans but we then fail to empathise with the animals who suffer at our hands.
About this person
Winters is an English activist who built his reputation through public outreach and street debates, pressing passersby on the ethics of eating animals with a calm, systematic approach. He expanded into filmmaking and lecturing, then distilled his method into print: This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) arrived in 2022, followed by How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time) in 2023 and How to Go (and Stay) Vegan in 2025. The trilogy frames veganism not as lifestyle but as argument - one he believes can be won through logic, not sentiment.
