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Grocery prices did not have to rise as a result of supermarkets adopting environmentally friendly procedures, Asda chief executive Andy Bond told The Guardian. Bond said that grocers could save money by going green and use the cash to cut prices, and Asda would not be supporting any campaign to drive prices up. He also said that Asda had started to treat its smaller suppliers better.

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Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have bowed to pressure from campaigners to overhaul their operations to recover and recycle the billions of plastic containers used to sell their products worldwide, wrote the Indie. It said that campaigners, buoyed by this success, were calling for an EU-wide increase in compulsory plastic recycling targets for drinks manufacturers.

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Meat prices are set to rise following recent increases in the price of wheat, according to Europe's agriculture commissioner in an exclusive interview with the FT. The paper said farmers would soon have to pass an increase in animal feed costs to the consumer, with poultry and pork products set to receive the largest price increases. Poultry is already one third more expensive than it was a year ago, it added.

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More than 100,000 farmed Atlantic salmon have escaped from the Western Isles over the past six months posing a threat to wild fish, according to The Times. The flabby cage-reared fish, which are genetically weak from not having to swim thousands of miles against strong currents, could turn their wild salmon counterparts into "couch potatoes" if they were to spawn, claimed the paper.

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The Sun reported on a novel way to stop the spread of mad cow disease - feed cattle with cannabis. According to the paper, French scientists believe that the drug could prevent the development of brain diseases such as BSE in animals.

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