 In the period immediately before and during the 1973 October War she went back to Israel and became committed to the Palestinian cause.Back in Britain as from the mid-1970s her commitment became and remained focused on the politics of food, as she associated with the "Agricapital" group, which examined food production and health, for example producing a critique of the UK bread industry, alongside the "Politics of Health Group".Both groups researched and debated the science and politics of food, nutrition, health, production and consumption.