S2, Ep1: Effective Activism with Earthling Ed
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
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Back to our regular Wednesday weekly slot, we, The ChickPeeps, find ourselves wildly keen to discuss the past year in vegan news - the updates, controversies, triumphs and progress, and who better to mull that over than with the exceptionally erudite animal rights’ activist, Earthling Ed. A much loved returning guest from season 1, Ed is vegan educator, public speaker and co-founder of Surge and The Official Animal Rights March. The past year has seen him spreading the vegan message to Ivy League students across America and opening his own non-profit vegan diner, and this week he takes time to pause and reflect on where the vegan movement is in the public consciousness now.
Also on this episode...
- Is veganism winning?
- What the Ivy League students have to say about veganism.
- Is there space for joy in activism and how do we balance our personal lives with activism?
- Should we all be full time activists?
- How much is the government helping/hindering the animal rights movement?
- Robbie and Ed go head to head in a battle for the title of nerdiest vegan as they share who reads the most science and medical journals.
- Ed explains his reasoning for skulking around farmers chat rooms under the alias Farmer Ed (joke).
- Ed has a surprising suggestion for the person he’d most like to see go vegan…
Links:
- Follow Earthling Ed on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
- Ed’s website.
- Ed’s animal rights organisation, Surge.
- The Official Animal Rights March.
- Ed’s TEDx Talk.
- Ed’s speech at Harvard.
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:09.0 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not hard to be vegan. |
| 0:14.0 | The chickpeepes. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to episode one of the chickpeep season two, your friendly vegan weekly |
| 0:24.9 | podcast. I'm your host, Evie Lynch, and yes, technically this is our second episode, but now we're |
| 0:30.7 | back to Wednesday release dates and are back to our normal format of having a guest on every |
| 0:35.1 | week. So this is the official episode one of |
| 0:38.2 | season two. Don't question my podcast logic. It is what it is. So I thought we'd do an overview |
| 0:44.7 | of what's gone on over the past year. And in order to discuss the vegan scene, I thought |
| 0:49.7 | who better to have on than Earthling Ed, aka Ed Winters. He was on season one. He's an incredible |
| 0:54.9 | activist. He devotes his whole time, his whole life to helping spread the vegan message. |
| 1:01.0 | A little bit more about Ed's work, if you don't know him. He is a vegan educator, public speaker, |
| 1:05.4 | and content creator based in London. He's the co-founder and co-director of Surge, an animal rights |
| 1:09.7 | organization determined to create a world where compassion towards all non-human animals is the norm. |
| 1:14.5 | He also founded the official Animal Rights March and he has spoken at over a third of UK universities and six Ivy League colleges, including as a guest lecturer at Harvard University in April 2019. |
| 1:25.8 | He's given speeches across the world and he did two TED Talks |
| 1:28.4 | this year. So Ed has been super busy in the time that we have not been podcasting since we spoke to him. |
| 1:34.3 | Oh, he also opened Unity Diner in October 2018, a non-profit vegan diner where all the profits |
| 1:40.4 | go back into helping animals. And he just expanded his diner. I was at the launch last week. It's very exciting. And he has a podcast called The Disclosure Podcast. So I am going to call it. Ed is the authority on veganism. He knows what's up and he's going to tell us about it in this interview. So I hope you enjoy this catch-up chat with Earthling Ed. Okay, Chick-Peeps. I am now here with several people. It's a very full |
| 2:02.8 | room right now because we've got Earthling Ed back on the podcast. It's been a year since we've been |
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