Conversation starters for stalls
On weekends, my boyfriend and I used to do Animal Liberation stalls outside a busy market, and we'd like start doing them again tomorrow. It's basically just us, a table with a whole bunch of pamphlets and an animal lib sign so people know who we are. We just sort of try to grab people's attention and then talk about veganism/animal cruelty/factory farming and then give them pamphlets and stuff if they are interested.
Usually when we do these stalls we borrow a prop from our local animal lib office - a cage with scarily realistic looking paper mache chickens squished inside to represent a battery cage farm. It always grabs attention (mostly from people being disgusted or feeling the need to ask us 'ARE THEY REAL???') which leads to conversations.
Because we won't be able to get it for tomorrow, I'm interested in other ways of (verbally) getting people's attention so as to start conversations.
Usually I just ask something like "Do you know much about factory farming?", but I don't think it's very effective as most people just ignore it.
So basically, my question is, apart from "Do you know much about _____ (veganism, animal cruelty in Australia, etc)?", what would you guys suggest as good one line conversation starters to get people interested in coming to talk to us?
I guess this is probably a strange request, but as am I am pretty socially awkward I find it hard to think of these things myself...
Thanks in advance!
Usually when we do these stalls we borrow a prop from our local animal lib office - a cage with scarily realistic looking paper mache chickens squished inside to represent a battery cage farm. It always grabs attention (mostly from people being disgusted or feeling the need to ask us 'ARE THEY REAL???') which leads to conversations.
Because we won't be able to get it for tomorrow, I'm interested in other ways of (verbally) getting people's attention so as to start conversations.
Usually I just ask something like "Do you know much about factory farming?", but I don't think it's very effective as most people just ignore it.
So basically, my question is, apart from "Do you know much about _____ (veganism, animal cruelty in Australia, etc)?", what would you guys suggest as good one line conversation starters to get people interested in coming to talk to us?
I guess this is probably a strange request, but as am I am pretty socially awkward I find it hard to think of these things myself...
Thanks in advance!