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I am usually a skeptic about... well about everything :) So last year when my wife brow beat me into watching a movie call "Forks over Knifes" I twiddled my thumbs through it, and proceeded to pan it afterwards.  Calling into fact all of the studies and such that I could kind of half remember from the last arguement I got into with a vegan, and pointing out all of the biases and mistakes in their studies and such.  My wife being accustomed to my schtick rolled her eyes, ignored me and told me to put my money where my mouth is :)  She challeneged me.  She says "Try it and lets see what happens".  At this point my cholestrol was pretty high, as was my weight, especially for my age (I am over the hill, but not THAT old, at least not in my mind :) ).  Fine I say I will PROVE to you that this is bunk!
I am an experimentalist by nature.  I scoff and sneer at theoriticians.  I still can't fathom what a string is and why we have a theory on it and not yarn ;)  I, like you Doc, am constantly fighting the idea of believeing propaganda, and not just believeing the evidence in front of our eyes.  So I thought, "here we go a chance to prove all those tree hugging, animal loving nuts wrong!  I bet I get sick within a week".
Well three months later and low and behold...  I have lost 25 pounds (I didnt change exercise habits or really even calorie count or eat less food, just the substance changed, although a pound of lettuce and a pound of beef are naturally going to be a calorie difference :) ), my cholestrol isn't high, in't even borderline it is LOW, and I felt GREAT.  I even remarked to my wife, it true bewilderment a few weeks in... "why does my stomach not hurt???"  I was truly wondering why my stomach wasn't in tumult!  The few times I fell off the wagon, especially with dairy, I had violent reactions to it.  Like litterally I needed to RUN to the bathroom to keep my pants clean ;)  I actually now think that dairy is a posion to be avoided at all costs (WHY OH WHY DOES IT HAVE TO TASTE SO GOOD!!!!)
This led us to highly decreasing dairy for the whole family.  And immediately my daughters stomach aches went away, and my sons terrible persistant exema VANISHED.  We had tried EVERYTHING on that poor boy's skin to no avail, and a week with out cheese and it is as smooth and pure as a babies bottom!  We still have dairy on occasion, but the reations are almost immediate.  My son gets itchy and blotchy within hours.  (AGAIN, WHY DOES IT HAVE TO TASTE SO GOOD!!!  ARG!)
Of course other peoples milage may vary.  Seems pretty obvious to me that our family has some pretty strong lactose intolerances (although nothing bad enough to get diagnosed as such).  But suffice it to say I am now a believe if the animal product free way of life (I very much dislike the term Vegan).  Of course I type this as I eat the last bite of a donut dripping in animal fats (hmmmmm... butter) and most likey made with eggs, curse you coworker for bringing in something to tempt me on your birthday!  (ONE LAST TIME... WHY DO ANIMALS HAVE TO TASTE SO GOOD!!!!).  So of course I am not perfect, but this is one piece of propaganda that, at least for me and my family, I have thouroughly tested and founf to be true :)
Give it a try, Doc, I bet you will feel better :)