leslie wrote:
>"the problem isn't what someone chooses to eat or not eat, the problem is when they make it everyone else's problem, no? "<

Exactly, I really have no problem with vegetarians, much of my diet is vegetable anyway and I have enjoyed the challenge of trying to make things vegetarian on occasion.

The only problem as you correctly identified is when someone makes it others problems. I have vegetarian friends <no vegans it seems I irritate them a bit too much> and I enjoy having them over when I entertain. But they know I am not going to buy new pans grills or utensils to accommodate them, not so much selfishness, more I have very good cooking utensils pans and knives and a short attention span. When cooking I am going to grab familiar utensils without thought to whether it has been "contaminated" by animal flesh.

The sadist in me loves to remind them how many field mice get dead during the harvest of the grain in the bread they are eating <unless it is hand picked hand threshed grain>, for some reason many of them don't believe that the little beasties get sucked in and finely minced by the machinery.

But much like the drinking it is up to the person that wishes to abstain to make sure they can provide for their special needs. During times I did not drink for whatever reason I always made sure I brought my own drinks.

As a side note an old bumper sticker I saw said:
Vegetarian is Indian for Bad Hunter.

That amused the fuck out of me.

JSin