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Young vegan issues meaty challenge
22 September 2006
By BECK ELEVEN

An 11-year-old Christchurch vegan wants to challenge a visiting professor, who says meat is an essential part of a healthy diet, to a triathlon.


Ella Soryl said she was powered by mandarins and avocados.

The Year 7 Shirley Intermediate School pupil, who has been a vegan all her life, was angered by Professor Robert Pickard's comments this week.

Pickard is the director-general of the British Nutrition Foundation and has been brought to New Zealand by the council for foods of animal origin, an industry body representing producers of milk, eggs, fish and red-meat products.

He has toured the country with a message that vegetarian, vegan and low-meat diets are unnatural and that the human body has a genetic propensity for animal-derived products.

Ella was first in her age group in her school triathlon.

She does ballet, swimming, athletics, and yesterday she sat a National Certificate of Educational Achievement examination in Maori.

She likes garlic potatoes and corn and believes Pickard's comments can be taken with a pinch of salt.

"I don't think it's true. I think he's just saying that because he's been paid to say it by the meat industry," she said. "What he said was really silly."

She was busting to go full throttle with Pickard, but he was in Auckland for the final days of his New Zealand tour.

Speaking from his hotel, Pickard said he was not aiming his comments at individual diets but at the general public, who may not be educated well enough to eat a balanced vegetarian or vegan diet.

"There are people out there who are very well-educated who can look after themselves very carefully and maintain good health, but when you are designing public health policy you have got to direct people to eat diverse foods," he said.

The broader population had a better chance of fulfilling essential daily nutrient requirements if they ate the full range of foods, including animal-derived products.