On Tuesday 2nd of December Jane and Laura attended the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Cancer. Much of it was disappointing-lots of waffle about cancer journeys and 'improving your cancer experience' from some tedious woman minister. The general discussion was dominated by men demanding routine PSA screening in the UK and patients demanding that highly expensive drugs be made available.

There was one lecture on diet and cancer which drew attention to levels of IGF-1 as a predictor of prostate cancer It took persistent questioning from Laura and Jane to draw out the admission that the lecturer was aware of the link between prostate cancer and dairy. He claimed this was because he had to be highly conservative as a scientist. As Jane pointed out on the scientific basis of the Precautionary Principle alone people should have been warned against consuming dairy in 2000 - the year the first edition of Your Life in Your hands was first published - How much suffering could have been avoided if 'The Cancer Industry' had come clean then ?

On December 3rd Jane gave a lecture on Endocrine- disrupting substances and hormone-dependent cancers to the MSc students studying environmental management at Imperial College.

On Dec 4th Jane attended a lecture at London university given by Dr Charles Benbrook, former agricultural adviser to the Carter and Reagan administrations in the US.  The lecturer showed how the introduction of GM corn in the US had greatly reduced genetic diversity, increased seed costs so that farmers, reluctant to lose any of their crop ,now spray systemic pesticides every 3-5 days. There is strong evidence that the use of new pesticides called Nicotinyls are responsible for the dramatic decline in the Honey Bee population there. Unfortunately the same pesticides are being used in the UK and Europe. More reasons to eat organic.