Ed Winters is an English animal rights activist, author, filmmaker, lecturer and vegan educator. He authored the books This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) (2022), and How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time) (2023).

Winters was born in York. Winters graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Film and Television Production from the University of Westminster.

Winters turned vegetarian on 14 May 2014 after coming across a news article about a chicken truck crashing near Manchester. Upon reading that many of the birds had died, and watching the documentary Earthlings he decided to become vegan in March 2015.

Winters started his YouTube channel in 2016, alongside co-founding the animal rights organisation Surge. His Earthling Ed channel brought him to fame with videos of him having friendly talks about veganism with non-vegan passerbys.

He has worked as a Media and Design Fellow at Harvard University in 2022, and has frequently presented at Harvard as a guest lecturer.

Winters has given speeches in one-third of U.K. universities and across college campuses in America. Winters has appeared on live television such as on This Morning debating the ethical and environmental arguments for veganism. In September, 2018 he opened a non-profit vegan restaurant in London called Unity Diner. The restaurant helps to fund an animal sanctuary in the Midlands which Winters co-founded. In 2021, Winters co-founded another vegan restaurant, the No Catch Co., in Brighton.

Winters was also one of the guests at the 2018 Montreal Vegan Festival.

In early 2019 he gave two TEDx talks.