Arguing with a meat eater...
Brighton is getting a visit from the writer and activist dubbed Vegan Jesus to promote his new book How To Argue With A Meat Eater (And Win Every Time) published by Vermilion.
On the back of its publication, Ed Winters – also known as Earthling Ed – is setting out on a five-date Waterstones book tour around the UK including Brighton on January 11 where his Waterstones event, after quickly selling out, has been upgraded to Wagner Hall.
It’s the Earthling Ed nickname that more accurately reflects his journey: “One of the main reasons I went vegan was because of a documentary called Earthlings that I watched on Youtube. It looks at all the different ways that we treat animals for food and for entertainment and for clothing. It's available on Youtube and it's an hour and 40 minutes of deeply upsetting visceral undercover footage. It is very confronting. I'd been vegetarian already for about eight months and a lot of the talk around veganism is generally around diet and food, and food is obviously biggest reason that we harm animals but watchingthisdocumentary made me realise that it was just so much about mentality as well, the fact that we deem certain animals as being so unworthy that it really doesn't matter what we do to them – fish and chicken and pigs and cows and lambs. I had a hamster at the time called Rupert and after I had watched the documentaryiwentandsat with Rupert and gave him some broccoli which he loved. And I just remember thinking about this tiny little animal who just loved to potter around and to do his ownthingandwhojusthad so much personality. And you realise you're talking about a sentient creature.”