I'm quite sympathetic to the plight of the modern vegetarian. It's true that they can't just eat their tofu in peace. Probably a lot of that is innocent. I know that I'm genuinely interested in why people choose to be vegetarians, and therefore ask, but I also know that I wouldn't want to have to explain my eating choices to everyone I meet. Eating is part of that short list of rather fundamental human desires.
When I was in grad school I made a lot of tofu at home becaue it was cheap and because it kept well, and having a car which wasn't surviving the New England winters all that well limited my trips to the supermarket. It can be quite tasty.
But these venison burgers were even tastier...
