 What's going on everyone welcome to another video this video here I thought I'd give you some tips and pointers on how I talk to non-vegans there's a few videos out there already floating around a lot of different activists have their perspective this is mine so this will be about how I do my interview videos there's a few different methods I use for different types of activism so outreach direct outreach will be different to my interviews style videos one on one with like family and friends will be a little bit different what I would start with with you guys was building rapport so you look at the person and you tailor your approach to that specific person I mean you wouldn't speak the same way to a 17 year old teenage boy as you would to a 50 year old mother of three so you tailor your approach to both of them you know you might you might you might be a little bit more relaxed and chill with the younger dude and talk to him like yeah man you know on his level you know you know he might be a little bit more well spoken with the with the older lady and maybe get veganism to relate back to her children and how you know children they would never want to eat anything that came out of a slaughterhouse if we shown him this and you know and mothers are usually empathic they empathetic to other mothers so you could speak about the dairy industry and you know younger dudes you know you could be like you know we think it's not cool to do this to animals you know it doesn't make you more of a man to treat animals like this and make sure man to stand up from you know building rapport so I would tailor your approach depending on the specific person so it changes person to person with foreign speaking language people so if they don't speak English should be clear concise talk slowly so they understand you make sure they're understanding you the difference between outreach activism I would say with outreach and interviews the difference would be with outreach and more educational pumping out the information really fast so bang what veganism is we don't use where exploit animals for entertainment or in any other way for medical testing and then you have the visual aid when I do my outreach it's with anonymous for the voiceless we have visual aids we have people holding TVs with slaughterhouse footage I find that makes your outreach a lot more effective you don't have to explain too much about what happens to animals you can just point to it and say this is what's going on to animals being vegan is so positive it's really good for your health we don't have to contribute to this exploitation really really makes your job easier because people like to make up this picture in their mind about humane slaughter and how animals are killed but if you've got it on the screen in front of them they really can't reach for that sort of it's like a memory that's a weird thought that's been implanted through you know happy farm programming on the television or something but yeah when you've got the visual aid so this is the egg industry it's terrible I know it makes your outreach a lot easier and a lot more effective so the difference between outreach and my interviews which I'll get into is outreach is pumping out facts education canning out pamphlets you know you can use socratic questioning in your outreach as well I find a mixture of both works well we'll move on to socratic questioning now because that's what I use when I do my interview videos now I didn't even know who Socrates was when I first started doing my interview videos his Socrates is a Greek philosopher who used to teach people by asking these deep questions and let and lead them to their own conclusion I just found it come really naturally to me I would say the first person to pioneer the vegan interviews videos would be Martin from think about this that was the first time I'd ever seen a vegan youtube is doing interviews yeah with the fucks up here with fucking jolly cob strong here in randall mole so my first interview video we did a collaboration together and I read out the questions and the way I set out these questions is I find out their moral stance on something first do you believe in karma yeah just so do you believe that this was my first interview video do you believe that if you do wrong to others it will come back on you man you put bad stuff out that's what you get back what goes around comes around you get what you deserve and then the last question is do you eat me do you eat meat yes I do do you eat me yeah yes so we sort of set them up in a way you know you set them up with how their moral stance on any topic could be slavery do you think slavery is morally wrong it could be uh I've done a rape one do you think rape and kidnap uh some of the worst crimes committed be aware of what happens in the dairy industry I think I'm going to stop right here now thank you cheers like this horrible question so why do you think why do you think it's like that ask people that and then you lead it back to you know veganism veganism all these issues relate to veganism because veganism is an issue of justice so asking them these leading questions helps them come to the realisation themselves without you pumping information down their throat you know you're just gently questioning them and leading them to the vegan conclusion so it can take a little bit of practice but really once you get used to their answers so they say well as long as it's humane or do you think you could kill an animal who wants to live in a humane way so that would be a socratic questioning you know and they'd be like oh no you can't oh wow that type of questioning where it's less invasive I feel and it's more it gets it gets them to think and I found it's very effective there's other activists that do it really well too earthling Ed Benara warrior princess James Aspie does it there's a bunch of um vegan activists on online doing interviews now too and I found it's just a really good way to boom get the light bulbs going off in their head would you change your food choices after after knowing that going home and I'm changing right now that's I'm I ain't baking this morning oh also with approach I would say your approach has to be well I would say it's it's better to be calm logical and rational when and and engaging in a discussion and debate while remaining as emotionally detached you can I know how hard it is being vegan and and seeing the suffering and animal cruelty and then getting some ignorant response from someone but I would I would I would ask you to remain as emotionally detached as you can when you're doing your activism and remember you have to get it you're trying to get a result from them so socratic questioning ask them a question then remember you got the truth on your side you have the truth on your side so it's not very hard to convince someone that stabbing an animal to death for a burger is wrong isn't already wrong I mean you've got the truth backing you up so don't get too frustrated try not to I know it's hard I sometimes get frustrated too but logical rational debate and and you have to be an educated activist you need the facts behind you I don't claim to be the most effective activist on the planet or anything but I'm just showing you what's worked for me and what I've found has been most affected with me and what I've seen with other activists has been most effective and I think it all comes down to debate discussion remaining calm building rapport okay showing how positive and awesome veganism is and can be speaking to people's compassion and empathy very important going with the health angle if you need to some people are just environmentalists show them how you know it's it's destroying the earth itself all these different things and socratic questioning is very effective too so all these combined together will make you very effective at talking to non-vegans and hopefully hopefully planting a seed that may flourish in the future a lot of these interactions they might not go vegan on the spot but you might plant a seed that might flourish six months later something about the thing about all right I don't know you've definitely given me something to think about no the most important thing is you have a very memorable conversation with this person and you leave a very big question in their mind about their dietary choices and their morality because the biggest step for me in becoming vegan was realizing that what I was doing was hypocritical all right so I hope those tips help you on your activist journey and if you need any sort of one-on-one help with some stuff give me an email I'll leave my email in my description box and get out there and talk to non-vegans all right I'll see you all in the next video peace