RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors issue a report to shareholders by October 2002, prepared at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, reviewing McDonald’s animal welfare standards with the view to adopting and enforcing consistent animal welfare standards internationally. SUPPORTING STATEMENT: Our company’s public policy and practices towards the welfare of farm animals, as currently implemented in the United States and United Kingdom, make McDonald’s a corporate leader in those countries. In the U.S., our company has prohibited some abuses and details these improvements on our company’s Web site, which includes this statement: “McDonald’s believes that the humane …