hi everyone Michael Lanfield here in
thank you for joining me so I got a
special video for you today and that is
what is the best way to promote veganism
cuz I get this question asked a lot and
that's tough question because for
everyone is gonna be a little different
so I can't say that one particular
method is better than another because
maybe some might awaken by watching a
vegan documentary and some might not
maybe some will be inspired by reading a
book maybe some might not maybe some
will be inspired by going to a website
or reading some information on veganism
something might not so not every tactic
is gonna work for every person and so
the best best way to promote veganism is
whatever you think is the best so if
you're handing out leaflets and you feel
bodies or motivation and that is your
purpose then hand out those vegan mean
flips because that is what is good for
you what is good for me is something
little different and that is writing
books and sending them out to you so you
can read them okay so that is the best
method for me so people ask me well how
can I reach the most number of people
with veganism and that is a tough
question because we will never know we
might hand out 5,000 leaflets five five
thousand vegan leaflets and we might get
4000 people going vegan or we might get
know people going vegan from all those
you know thousands of leaflets handed
out you might have a channel that has a
million views but we may get one person
going vegan or it might get hundred
thousand people going vegan so we don't
really know the outcome of vegan
advocacy and so that is just something
that we must do and that's that just
like Jehovah Witness
is promote their message and which is
basically God's kingdom and they don't
know how many people are there of your
would you call it
Paul suffice it so yes that's it we
don't we don't know they don't know
either
just like any any kind of advocacy work
we don't know how many people we're
recruiting or at least we're educating
because some people just throw things
out you know a lot of leaflets are left
on the floor on the ground
maybe somebody watches a movie but
doesn't doesn't do anything for them so
so many different things
so what is my top ways to promote
veganism and I've seen in my time some
really clever like promotional or
marketing tactics for veganism and there
probably is thousands of other things
that we could do out there and people
have so many creative ideas it's amazing
how many dedicated and how the working
vegans there are out there trying to
spread this message to the world so
there are a few things and a few tips
that I will give you which actually will
be on the new website which is coming
out shortly I'm not going to tell you it
now but once it comes out you'll know
because it'll be on this channel
it'll be featured on my website will be
splattered all over Facebook and you'll
know it's coming out soon as a comedy
website it's very good one and it's
gonna be huge
now in the beginning there's not gonna
be much information on there not much
content but as more and more people go
on to it there will be and we will just
keep updating and keep revamping the
site and making it better and better so
what are my favorite ways or the best
ways I feel will get the message out to
a broader audience so YouTube is a very
good
medium YouTube is actually I think
better than any other video sharing site
out there there's Vimeo as well and
there's of course others but YouTube is
probably one of the best and also
because you can monetize your videos so
if you have an enthusiastic video like
this one where your heads are waving in
the air million miles an hour and you
are loving your video and you really
engage with your audience like engage if
you're talking like this and you're just
talking like this I would like you to go
vegan and it's because it's good for the
earth and it's good for the animals
nobody's gonna listen if you do that hey
that's right and you gotta be noble
funny and not depressed like oh you know
I'm so depressed today
I love being being about so depressed
today I don't know what to eat and you
know like come on you got to get better
videos than that I mean I know like most
of the time I'm sitting behind my desk
when I'm speaking to you and not outside
because now it's winter hey that's a
nice video I can do actually going out
with my t-shirt in wintertime hey just I
just came up with another idea but
anyways let's not digress and let's talk
about this so my favorite ways to get
the most amount of people going vegan
youtube again that's number one not an
engineer and then not in any order but
that's one thing you can do another
thing you can do is blogging blogging
blogging blogging blogging blogging or
having your own website of some sort so
that's something else
thirdly is any kind of outreach event so
handing out leaflets so I'm kind of Obed
outdoor video education educational
display where you have a video display
outside something like voices for
anonymous for the voiceless does
sometimes DXE does film screenings and I
need a public library or anywhere
basically so just showing us a film a
documentary that's a good thing but then
again you have to get the people coming
to your event so that's one thing you
got to get people coming to the event so
sometimes as a tricky
is getting the people there okay if you
have the money pay people a dollar just
or $5 just to watch them moving hey come
and watch a movie we'll pay you five
bucks come on you know that's if you
have the money of course um what else
a good way to veganism just talk to
anybody just go down the street talk to
anybody whoever you meet talk to about
them talk to them about veganism and
what else people that are really not
interested
don't keep bashing their heads just talk
to people that are interested or people
that are just awful on the street or
somewhere just talk to people you know
it's better if you're in a group kind of
setting if you have like at least more
than one vegan with you but even that
like just like if you're in a subway or
something handing up putting leaflets on
the chairs would be a good idea because
people can sit down at a scene they read
that leaflet what else is a good idea to
swell let me see what else is a good
idea well what what my next friend told
me before is no you know those newspaper
stands you the paid ones you just put
the money and you open it you keep it
open you put a flier in every newspaper
okay
so you can do that you can even do that
with the free newspapers that are out
there and just put put a flyer inside
each newspaper what else can you do I
mean there's so many things out there
you can do public speaking of course you
got to promote the event then again get
people going to the event promoting it
somehow on YouTube on Facebook on all
the social media channels Twitter
Pinterest Instagram right at all these
places what else what else what else
what else what else just talking to
people just really being
being assertive and talking to people
you know not being mean or anything
saying Ah you're buying milk but you
know that there's soy milk and almond
milk and you know rice milk out there
for no no no no don't say that hey I see
that you bought
you know you bought cucumbers or
something you know Oh like you converse
and then you talk about you know the
fruits and the produce and all this
stuff and then you say well did you know
that there's alternatives to cow's milk
or you know something like positive you
know something that will get them going
and just talk about yours your own you
know your own personal story and I
statement so I went you know the vegan
because of business or I had some you
know spiritual awakening or I didn't
want to contribute just animal suffering
and all that stuff so those are a few
ways that you can promote vegan as uh
being it as a veganism yeah I sound like
Three Stooges now
so what else okay no wait there's so
many ways hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of ways it that's the beauty of
it you know you can do marches you can
do all kinds of demonstrations you could
do what else you can have you know if
you have a house you can put a big
banner SSB being in or something with a
website maybe underneath it you can go
on radio and TV and you can do anything
like then possibilities are endless if
you're strongly motivated about
promoting veganism and you have your
purpose you have your you you know oh I
am good at I don't know
writing books then become a writer and
promote veganism that way if you own I
don't know a recording company right
only or you make music write only vegan
music and releases it of public so so
there's some ways you can do it and I'm
not saying some ways are better than
others and some people will take to some
things and some people won't
like if you screen a film not everyone
who's going to go vegan right away
okay maybe some will at that moment but
not everyone will go vegan and so the
idea is to try different methods try so
many different things but if you're
doing the same thing over and over and
over depends like if you get your if
you're getting a lot of good you know
good if you're getting a lot of good
like conversion like people that come to
people actually that are going to go
vegan and that's great
and you can actually find out this by
people actually coming up to you and
people saying like because I've noticed
in the past I've read stories that
especially when it comes to me I five
hurdle I mean my YouTube video for
example you can see the conversion rate
of people going vegan and people not
going vegan because of their comments so
people there are hundreds even maybe
even thousands of people that have gone
vegan because of my videos on my channel
so some people might come up to you
after the lecture event if you're
speaking at a like I have a speaking
engagement for example somebody might
come up or some people might come up to
you and say well thank you for your you
know your inspiring talk and made me
really think about going vegan or
whatever you know but how do I start
that at a time you make a conversation
like that and then you already had one
connection so one person going vegan
maybe there are others that might think
about it or maybe there are others that
might go home and throw out all their
animal products and and go to the
grocery store buy any any and all things
that are vegan and we don't really know
how many people we awaken you know so
that's the thing is we don't know but
over time sometimes we see a trend
sometimes we see a higher conversion
rate so where we feel motivated to do
speaking and even if that
get anyone to go vegan let's just say it
doesn't get anyone to go vegan at least
we're doing something to provoke
veganism that's a thing and I can
definitely say that it will do something
to get people going vegan it will do
something there's no no thing that will
not get someone going vegan at least
thinking about it right for example whew
every week you're handing out 500 vegan
leaflets every single week handing out
500 vegan leaflets somebody is abound to
go vegan or at least to think about
going vegan or if if not then at least
somebody that is vegan is going to think
about becoming a vegan advocate for
example so I don't know how many people
I've changed with my books hundreds
maybe thousands I don't know all I know
is how many books I've actually are out
there how many of my books are out there
in the world that's what I know I don't
know exact number but I know it's in
there thousands and I know that I've
handed out hundreds upon hundreds of
free copies of my book books and I don't
know if that I did anything or not but I
do know at least a message is out there
and that's the key when promoting
veganism at least the messages out there
the more people that see the word vegan
the more people that understand what it
really means to be vegan then it's gonna
be in the mainstream you know that's the
whole thing we want everyone to see it
everyone to know what vegan is that's
the thing now of course in certain
countries it's very very unknown what
vegan is it's very unknown but there are
still you know like whatever means
it is that your you're getting the
message out is a good way of getting
that message out unless it's judgmental
it's being angry at somebody like oh my
goodness you're wearing fur you don't
you know that the animals are killed
like that's going to not that is not a
very effective advocacy and its first of
all it's talking just fur which we must
tackle veganism but what we must do what
me absolutely must do is to promote it
the message very very lovingly and
they're the most loving and positive way
possible which means that we need to be
assertive in our ways but tsardom
doesn't mean being judgemental all my
goodness you're eating that hamburger
don't you know what the pigs had to go
through I mean they're kale like no that
is not the way we do it
man I want you to go vegan do it now
because the animals are suffering no
that's not the way we want to do it you
know I went vegan because I didn't like
the way that animals were exploited I
didn't like the way that animals are
treated and used and so I just happened
to naturally wake it to my natural
yearning and natural self which is
really what we are meant to do and
something like that like telling our own
stories you know that's the whole thing
telling our own stories and just telling
the truth telling the truth and the
truth is by our side and when we do this
when we live by example and tell the
truth to people why we just don't want
to contribute to animal exploitation and
use then people will start understanding
and start wakening you know we need them
to come out of that burning house and
play with us on the playground
we need them to do that and we can do
that when we when we help them when we
guide them when we water that seed more
with love and tenderness I hope you
learn something from this thanks for
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yeah
