11 year old vegan challenges Professor

[Guest guest]

Vegan Challenges Professor to Triathlon

Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 4:59 pm

Press Release: NZ Vegetarian Society

September 20 2006

 

Vegan Challenges Professor Robert Pickard to Triathlon

 

Christchurch vegan Ella Soryl (11) has challenged Professor Robert

Pickard to prove his claims that her diet is lacking.

 

Ella, a life vegan who has never eaten animal products, won her school

triathlon this year, and was a finalist in the Vegan Triathlon in 2006

and 2005. Ella has challenged Professor Pickard to compete with her in

a one on one triathlon.

 

“If you’re going to say silly things like children must eat animal

products, you have to be prepared to put your money where your mouth

is’ says Ella. “I challenge Professor Pickard to meet me on the sports

field and run, swim and bike it out with me.”

 

Professor Pickard, whose trip to New Zealand has been financed by the

animal foods industry, has been unable to provide references as proof

for his claims when asked by vegetarian organisations in the UK. His

claims contradict the position of the New Zealand Dieticians

association that a vegan diet is appropriate for all stages of the

human life cycle.

 

“Pro meat ‘experts’ sponsored by animal industries are as credible as

tobacco industry ‘experts’ who promote smoking,” says New Zealand

Vegetarian Society (Christchurch Centre) spokesperson Yolanda Soryl.

 

Yolanda Soryl, who is the mother of the vegan triathlete, says that it

is hard work keeping up with her 4 energetic life vegan children and

wishes Dr Pickard the best of luck if he is brave enough to try to

match her daughter in the race.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

~ Leonardo da Vinci (Renaissance painter, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher, 1452 - 1519)