Hello, welcome to Downstream here on Navara Media. My name is Aaron Bistane. This week's guest,

he's a big deal. His name's Ed Winters. You may have heard of him under the name Earthling

Ed, that's certainly how he's known to his legion of social media followers. Ed is an activist

and vegan educator and his YouTube channel at the moment I think has more than 400,000 subscribers.

And while he's made plenty of appearances in legacy broadcast media, that's where he's built his

profile. Now, Ed is talking to us at Navara Media to discuss his new book, This Is Vegan Propaganda.

We've talked about his advocacy for animal rights and how, at just 27, he's become a one-person

media machine when it comes to veganism. Ed, how you doing? I'm very well, how you doing? I'm

really well. Good. One of my colleagues actually said when you went to the bathroom a moment ago

that your skin is glowing. So you're something of a personal advert for the merits of veganism.

Hopefully, hopefully. Yeah, that's very nice to hear. I'm hopefully do have nice skin.

Is that's the thing you hear a lot? People say, oh, you seem quite happy or you're

quite productive, you're quite successful. Productive definitely seems to be a word that people use.

And I always feel a little bit bad when people say productive because it implies that, you know,

I'm doing all of the work, but I have a team of people who help me in all the different things

that I do. So I hope to be productive, but it's certainly not just me doing that on my own.

Do you put that stuff down to veganism? The positive stuff in your life, so for instance,

if you do seem productive or creative or very articulate in your videos, have you seen some sort of

shift cognitively physically since you've started eating products which have no animals involved?

I've definitely seen changes in my personal life. I feel healthier than I've ever been, like,

and never used to have people say anything about my skin before. But I think just more broadly,

that the passionate brings me, has given me a unique drive which I never had before. I mean,

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