The Cherokee Indians have an old story they tell. It goes,
before the dawn of history, everything was perfect. Nature was in balance and the cycle of life was even. Then the human began to multiply. The plants couldnt take care of all the humans anymore, so the humans had to resort to killing the animals for food. This angered the animals, so they got together and held a council. They agreed that for every animal the was killed there would be a new disease released to the humans.
I know its an old indian story, but it was told to me by an old medicine man in the Cherokee nation in NC. I never told him I was vegan or didnt eat meat either. Just some food for thought. Oh and about your brother, Just because he went vegetarian doesnt mean he had a healthy diet. People think that just because a food is vegetarian that it is healthy. that couldnt be further from the truth. Ice Cream and Twinkies are vegetarian... Cookies are vegetarian. Cheese is vegetarian. It is extremely easy to be an unhealthy vegetarian if you dont know what the hell you are doing. It has to be a Whole Foods plant Based Diet. Whole Foods means unprocessed! No added oils, or processed sugar. Whole Fruits and Vegetables, with cereal grains. No enriched white flour... NOTHING. Hell Vegetarians drink milk. Everyone know milk is one of the worst things for you. 80% of the protien in kilk is Caesine. Caesine is the glue the use to put labels on beer bottles. Also, EVERYONE in the MD field knows the Excess amount of protein inhibits Calcium Absorbtion, so that means the calcium in milk is completely useless.... Think about that for a change. Oh and the low fat dairy product... even worse because when you drop the fat out, the ratio of protien goes up so you get even less Calcium! Not to mention that dairy lowers the ph of you body to a more acidic level, and how does your body fix the ph levels? It uses calcium from the biggest supply it has... YOUR BONES. When your body used us the calcium in your bones they get weak, and thats called Osteoporosis! WTF Right?! If you dont think its true, look at the dairy capitols of the world. Denmark, Sweden, and the US ALL HAVE HIGHER RATES OF OSTEOPOROSIS THAN ANY OTHER NATION! Now why is that?! Just some food for thought.