Forcing Veganism On Indigenous People

Valid Criticism or Lame Excuse?

I was watching Ed Winters (Earthling Ed) debating veganism on YouTube. He’d set up a table on a university campus with a banner reading ‘Why Aren’t You Vegan Yet?’ and some really annoying, loud-mouthed student came up to challenge him to a debate.

If you know Ed Winters you already know this was probably a bad move on her part. Ed’s debating skills are legendary. Always softly-spoken and respectful, Ed has the patience of a saint when dealing with dumb arguments he’s had to address countless times before. He never belittles the person he’s speaking with, but fields their arguments with the skill of an accomplished master, never missing a beat.

This middle class student in Dallas spent 22 minutes prattling on about how Ed was trying to force his ‘vegan propaganda’ on the Inuit up in Alaska, who’ve lived ‘in harmony with Nature’ for thousands of years, only kill out of necessity to survive and have the utmost respect for the animals they eat.

Time and again, Ed made the point that he accepted and respected that there are people in certain parts of the world who, through necessity, have to kill and eat animals to survive. Time and again, he explained that he has no gripe with that, but that he is here on a university campus in Dallas asking students like…