Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days
In the quarter of a century since Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation, his hugely bestselling look at the impact of a food system controlled by a handful of multinationals, the dangers of industrialised food are growing. In this extract from a special 25th anniversary edition of the book, Schlosser looks back at the personal attacks he faced after publication, and the increased concentration of who controls the food we eat.
“Ingrid LeFebour woke up on a concrete slab, covered in a sheet in the morgue on the remote Indonesian island of Nias in 1976, she had no idea how she got there.Nor did anyone else know her fate – some believed she had died in bizarre circumstances.”
LeFabour’s disappearance featured prominently in the film Point of Change, a documentary about “discovery” of Nias by Australian surfers in the 1970s. When the film had its first screening in Fremantle last month, there was one person no one expected to be among the audience – LeFebour herself … Writer and professional surfer Lucy Small told the extraordinary story.
His turn at last year’s star-packed Black Sabbath tribute concert introduced Yungblud to a whole new audience beyond his burgeoning gen Z fanbase. Now, wrote our pop critic Alexis Petridis, he’s become a genuine rock superstar.
