Earthling Ed: How to Argue with a Meat Eater (Part Two)

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Ed Winters, known to his millions of online followers as Earthling Ed, has perfected the art of persuasion. During his extensive career as an activist and educator, he has made the case for veganism everywhere from university campuses to live on GB News. His compelling and informative content has garnered millions of views, and earned him a dedicated following across online platforms. Earthling Ed joined us live at the Kiln Theatre to share his insights on how we can all become better conversationalists and critical thinkers. How can we productively engage with those who have opposing views? How can emotionally charged conversations become productive? And how can we engage others to create a more ethical, kind and sustainable world? Drawing on the new paperback edition of his bestselling book, How to Argue with a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time), Ed discussed how to debunk and respond to every argument against veganism: from classic conspiracy theories and questions over a lack of protein to newer issues surrounding processed vegan substitutes and more. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events ... Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
0:03.9	I'm producer Mia Serenti.
0:06.7	For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our conversation with Earthling Ed on how to argue with a meat eater.
0:14.2	Ed joined us recently at the Kielm Theatre in conversation with climate activist Dominique Palmer
0:19.6	to share his insights on how we can all become better conversationalists and critical thinkers.
0:26.0	If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode and get up to speed.
0:31.6	But now it's time to rejoin the conversation with our host, Dominique Palmer.
0:36.4	It was really interesting to hear about the arguments
0:39.4	in relation to kind of capitalism and climate that you've faced and kind of tackled. I'm really
0:45.2	interested to know also what are kind of the top three arguments in general that you have found
0:53.7	amongst your research in this book and just generally.
0:57.3	Like, what's the research out there saying against veganism?
1:02.7	Yeah, well, I think there's a few ways of maybe approaching that question, which is,
1:07.6	what do I think at the most sort of prevailing arguments?
1:10.0	And also, what do I think is maybe the most legitimate arguments.
1:12.6	Let's start with the prevailing ones because the legitimate one is not so interesting really.
1:17.6	Well, okay, the legitimate one.
1:19.6	If someone cannot be vegan, then they cannot be vegan.
1:23.6	And what I mean by that is there are people who are reliant on food banks,
1:26.6	there are people in certain areas of the world who do not have the accessibility to plant foods to be vegan. And what I mean by that is there are people who are reliant on food banks, there are people in certain areas of the world who do not have the accessibility to plant foods,
1:31.3	to be vegan, then the argument for how they cannot be vegan is sort of made up for them, isn't it?
1:37.3	And so in terms of like a legitimate argument against veganism, then that makes sense.
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