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A jury found that a McDonald's in Florida and its franchise owner are liable after a hot Chicken McNugget led to second-degree burns on a girl after it fell from a Happy Meal and landed on her leg. A split jury determined last Thursday that the franchise owner of the McDonald's in Tamarac was negligent and that McDonald's USA failed to warn customers about the heat risk of its food, according to the Sun Sentinel. McDonald's USA was not found to be negligent, and the jury dismissed the argument that the Chicken McNuggets were defective. Holmes said her daughter began...

A teenage Minnesota McDonald's employee is being hailed a hero after she leapt from a drive-thru window to save a woman choking on a chicken McNugget. Sydney Raley, 15, from Edina, Minnesota, said she was working a 'mostly normal' shift at the Eden Prairie McDonalds Saturday when she popped her head out a window to inform a customer that the rest of her food would be ready shortly. That's when she realized the unidentified woman was in trouble.

Steve Stephens' hunger for Chicken McNuggets eventually led to the end of a nearly three-day-long nationwide manhunt. Stephens about 11 a.m. Tuesday ordered the 20-piece with French fries at a McDonald's drive-thru on Buffalo Road in Erie, Pennsylvania, store employees said. An employee recognized Stephens, and employees tried to stall him by pretending his fries weren't ready while they called police, the store's manager said, confirming earlier reports. Stephens drove off just as Pennsylvania state troopers arrived and led them on a chase for about two miles. Carl White Sr., who watched the chase unfold, said a cruiser rammed Stephens'...

Is farming brain-dead chickens more ethical? Architecture Student André Ford is proposing raising chickens for meat in vertical racks after severing their frontal cortexes, rendering them effectively brain-dead. It would be much, much more efficient, there's no doubt about that, but would it be any more ethical than current factory farms? The images of the conceptual chicken racks are fairly disturbing- the chickens are suspended, completely immobile, with their feet removed. Tubes feed water and nutrients directly into the them while other tubes carry away waste. The chickens themselves, though, aren't suffering at all, since their brains have been surgically...