Tune your flowchart

The flowchart is a guide, not a script. Blindly memorizing it can make outreach feel stiff, but ignoring the structure can make the conversation drift. Use these questions as a starting point, then adjust the wording so it sounds natural while still keeping each step focused on accountability, the victims’ perspective, and a clear call to action.

Non-vegan flowchart

1.Qualify & Explain

Open the conversation and define exploitation so you share a common language.

Default: How do you feel about humans exploiting other animals?

2.Establish Position

Get explicit agreement that other animals deserve respect.

Default: Do you agree that humans should respect other animals?

3.Contradiction Acknowledgment

Help them see they cannot truly respect someone they use as a resource.

Default: Can you truly respect other animals if you use them for your purposes?

4.Set Foundation

Give the definition of veganism — a justice position, not a diet.

Default: Do you know what the definition of veganism is?

5.Clarifying Advantages

Reframe veganism as what they gain: integrity and alignment with justice.

Default: Do you know the biggest advantage of living vegan?

6.Victims' Position & Urgency

Move them from intellectual agreement to felt urgency.

Default: If you were in your victim's position, how fast would you need this injustice to end?

7.Address Objections

Surface every objection and test if it's the real blocker.

Default: Do you feel there is anything preventing you from living vegan now?

8.Power of Choice

Put the decision squarely in their hands.

Default: From now on, how many more animals should be exploited because of you — zero or more?

9.Declaration

Ask for the commitment — out loud.

Default: So, vegan from now on?

10.Call to Action

Move them from vegan to active defender of other animals.

Default: Do you agree that we should actively defend other animals?

Vegan flowchart

1.Starter

Open the vegan-directed conversation about activism.

Default: You're vegan — open to a few quick questions for vegans?

2.Clarify Definition

Make sure they hold the correct definition of veganism.

Default: How would you define veganism?

3.Veganism Means Activism

Get them to see veganism isn't only consumer choices — it's rejecting human supremacism.

Default: Do you agree veganism is not only about your consumer choices?

4.Justice Isn't Optional

Challenge the idea that other people's non-veganism is their personal business.

Default: Do you think it's okay for other people not to live vegan?

5.Moral Obligation

Land the duty to actively defend.

Default: Do you agree the victims deserve to be actively defended?

6.Call to Action

Invite them to join AV outreach today.

Default: Can you join us for outreach?