Madison McVan

Madison McVan is an Investigative Reporter for The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.

Chickens raised at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in crowded lighted room with one in front trying to eat from a tube February 2022.
GRAPHIC: Production contracts, a Biden administration target, have a huge foothold in the livestock industry
Business
by Madison McVan
02.16.2022
Business
Bill Bullard, CEO of R-CALF, stands amongst cattle at Brad Kraft's K4 Cattle Company on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, near Billings, Montana. photo by Ryan Berry, for Investigate Midwest
Independent cattle ranchers continue fight against national checkoff program
Business
by Madison McVan
01.03.2022
Business
Raw pork meat hanging in a refrigerator of meat factory. December 2021
GRAPHIC: Just 17 plants slaughtered 65 percent of U.S. hogs last year
Business
by Madison McVan
12.21.2021
Business
A man wearing white uniform and blue gloves sorts through line of chicken at a processing plant. November 2021
New emails shed light on meat company CEOs’ pandemic lobbying
Business
by Madison McVan
11.15.2021
Business
A man carries box at the Greater Chicago Food Depository. October 2021
The pandemic disrupted Americans’ access to food. Not everybody suffered equally.
Politics
by Amanda Pérez Pintado, Investigate Midwest/Report for America + Madison McVan
10.28.2021
Politics
A worker at a meat processing plant, cuts off fat on a cut of meat wearing blue gloves. October 2021
USDA study shows working conditions in meatpacking plants likely drove coronavirus outbreaks
Health
by Amanda Pérez Pintado, Investigate Midwest/Report for America + Madison McVan
10.13.2021
Health
A grocery store shelf with refrigerated beef. September 2021
GRAPHIC: Meat prices increasing faster than other goods, government data shows
Business
by Madison McVan
09.24.2021
Business
Doug Rainforth, City of Fairmont water plant supervisor, talks with a reporter between two filter presses at the Fairmont Water Treatment Plant, July 16, in Fairmont MN. August 2021
Fertilizer runoff disproportionately harms low-income communities’ drinking water
Health
by Madison McVan
08.31.2021
Health
Farmers hands bundling bunch of dandelion greens
GRAPHIC: The people who pick America’s fruits and vegetables are getting older
Business
by Madison McVan
06.24.2021
Business