• Iowa workers protest conditions at a kosher meatpacking plant. [New York Times]
• A DC raw foods restaurant will be nation’s first “crowdsourced” restaurant, offer oat-hemp balls. [Washington Post]
• Users of Los Angeles food banks are hungry. [LA Times]
• West Bank Palestinians are thirsty. [Chicago Tribune]
• Meanwhile, in Japan, they’re going wild for eel drinks. [San Francisco Chronicle]