Feeling liberated, and a little crazy

I watched two different documentaries on Netflix today: Vegucated and Forks over Knives. I am in no way a bleeding heart when it comes to the treatment of animals, but even I am blown away with the process in which a steak makes it to my dinner table. It really got me thinking about dismissing meat, and maybe even all animal products. After watching Forks over knives, I KNOW that I want to switch to a mostly plant based diet. I WANT to be healthy, especially on the inside (like the arteries, where it counts). My obstacles are as follows: 1) I live in the deep south where anything that stands still long enough is deep fried 2) I am married to a good old country boy who LOVES steak 3) I have four little southern, meat loving offspring who are also going to look at me like I have lost my ever loving mind. No one that I know is especially health conscious around here. Even people who lecture me on healthy food are very overweight and so it goes in one ear and out of the other. Also, my husband is diabetic. We are talking non-functioning pancreas, insulin dependent, brittle diabetic. I am very concerned with how this diet would affect him, although I cannot imagine it being any more harmful than the processed mess we normally eat. This is all IF I can convince him to try it. When I told him about the documentary I watched, he said that he doesn't want to be educated on anything that will take him away from steak and bacon. Heart disease runs in my family and his, and I want to break the cycle. It has been in the back of my mind lately that even milk isn't as great as it once was- I have teenagers and babies, and the babies have both had trouble processing milk. The milk has to have changed! I am incredibly happy to have enlightened myself. Pray that I can convince my family as well! I also encourage you to look up these documentaries for yourself. Education is a beautiful thing!