• Workers at Boston’s two public convention centers have filed a tentative $1.75 million settlement with Aramark, after a dispute that the company was charging customers an extra fee that amounted to tips that food service workers never saw. [Boston Herald]
• A new book from a former head of the FDA, called The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, examines the neuroscience behind human behavior, taste preferences, and desire. [New York Times]
• World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009; the UN expects one-sixth of people around the globe will be undernourished. [FAO]
• EU ministers are keeping open the possibility of allowing cloned foods. [AFP]
