Vorerst aber nur bei Kühen.
Hier der Text von finance.yahoo.com

McDonald's Shares Slump
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Stock in fast-good giant McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD - news) fell more than 7 percent Thursday, following reports that some Texas cattle had been quarantined by the Food and Drug Administration on suspicion that feed safeguards against mad cow disease had been violated.

Shares in the maker of Big Macs, Quarter Pounders and other beef hamburgers, fell $2-2/16 to $28-11/16 on volume of 10.9 million shares in late-afternoon New York Stock Exchange trading. The shares have a 52-week trading range of $26-6/16 to $41-7/16.

The stock decline comes amid heightened anxiety over mad cow disease and concern that an outbreak in Europe, linked to tainted feed, could spread to non-European countries such as the United States.

McDonald's said Wednesday that European sales in its fourth quarter fell 10 percent to $2.21 billion from $2.45 billion a year ago, adding to a 7 percent drop in the period's net income.

``It's very easy for the mad cow scare to psychologically snowball,'' said Tim Ghriskey, head of value investing for Dreyfus Corp, where McDonald's is a core holding. ``If (mad cow) does go beyond the limited geographic area, McDonald's is certainly leveraged toward beef.''

U.S. health regulators said Thursday they had quarantined some Texas cattle while officials investigate whether a feed mill violated rules designed to spread mad cow, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Scientists believe cattle can contract BSE if they eat the remains of other infected animals.

``You have some operational pressures on the company,'' said Edward Jones analyst Patrick Schumann. ``Mad cow is not helping the overall perception.''

Übrigens kann es kein Zufall sein, dass die BSE Kühe in Texas auftauchen. Ich weiss, wovon ich spreche. Ich wohne nämlich in Bayern.

Grüße vom immer noch Salami essenden
R.


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