British food safety officials said Monday they plan to investigate a claim that milk from the offspring of a cloned cow was on sale for public consumption.

LONDON, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Sir Paul McCartney, with his daughters Mary and Stella, is launching a new food campaign - MEAT FREE MONDAY - on Monday 15th June which encourages people to help slow climate change by having one meat free day a week. The campaign has already gathered an impressive list of supporters from the worlds of entertainment, politics and the environmental sciences including Chris Martin, Jeff Koons, Alec Baldwin, Woody Harrelson, Doris Day, Sheryl Crow, Kevin Spacey, Kelly Osbourne, Zac Goldsmith, Gillian Anderson, Jake and Dinos Chapman, David de Rothschild, Monty Don, Sam Taylor Wood, Sharleen Spiteri, John Frieda and Ricky Gervais. In addition, several of the UK's most renowned chefs are supporting the campaign.

Sainsbury's, the third-largest supermarket chain in England, says it will stop selling eggs from hens kept in tight quarters called battery cages.

ASDA We found: Whole British Chicken/Chicken Legs. Price: pounds 3.54 (1.550/kg)/ pounds 2.29 (pounds 1.99/kg). Label shows: Red Tractor logo. There's also some details on the British farmer, who the label says is dedicated to rearing chickens to 'assured standards'.

By Sam Wood ASTRATEGY to reduce the number of young male dairy calves being killed on farms was announced this week and has been welcomed by North-East farmers.