fish
I went to a Mediterranean restaurant this week and the waiter brought around a large platter holding five different species of fish and some kind of special shrimp, all from very different ecosystems. He introduced them with the information you might want to see on a dating profile: age, hometown, color, size, flavor, mouth feel.
The four of us at the table sat there in silence, nodding at all the "flaky, sweet, white" being advertised to us, and the silence remained after we affirmed that today was not the day to gamble on market prices.
I couldn't help but think that those fishes were never meant to meet each other, yet now they were being toted around next to each other for consumption. Sounds a little familiar...?