Prepare to never go to McDonald's again.

Ms. Katherine Ortega of Newport News, Virginia wants to know how a fried chicken's head ended up in her box of McDonald's chicken. I can guess how.

They are using real chicken after all.

Woman almost takes a bite out of a chicken head.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) is a book by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. First serialized by Rolling Stone in 1999, the book has drawn comparisons to Upton Sinclair's classic "muckraking" novel The Jungle. Schlosser writes as a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, and has received a number of journalistic honors, including a National Magazine Award for an Atlantic article about marijuana and the war on drugs. Fast Food Nation, sub-titled The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, is his first book.