Evidence docket
Every fact, and where we read it
1,722 records behind the scores: what each seller says about its beef, the page we read it on, what we checked and found nothing, and every price change with its source. Nearly all of it is the sellers’ own words; we mark what isn’t. How we use it
| Date | Seller · steak | Fact | What we record | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Welfare Certifier check |
Certified Humane — Certified Humane Raised and Handled: listed (checked 2026-10-06). “ButcherBox | By subscription ButcherBox Grass-fed: Beef, Pork, and Bison” Own company row 'ButcherBox' (website ButcherBox.com) lists …grass-fed beef. Also named in other companies' rows for beef: Branding Iron Holdings Inc. ('Butcher Box: Grass-Fed Ground Beef Patties ... Seasoned Grass-fed Ground Beef for Meatloaf'), Colorado Premium ('Butcher Box: Grass-fed Beef, Ground Beef, Grass-fed Beef Portion Cuts'), Dan's Prize ('Butcher Box 100% Grass-fed Beef Pot Roast'), Dole and Bailey, Inc. ('Butcher Box - Assorted Grass-Fed Beef Cuts'), Rastellis Bros Inc dba Rastelli Foods Group ('Butcher Box Ground Beef, Butcher Box Various Beef Cuts'), Courage Production, LLC ('BUTCHERBOX® 100% Grass-Fed Uncured Beef Hot Dogs'). Non-beef ButcherBox items also listed via Southwest Bison (bison), Fred Usinger, Hazekamp's, Niman Ranch, North Country Smokehouse (pork/bacon/charcuterie). Species: beef (grass-fed), pork, bison. |
certifiedhumane.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Welfare Certifier check |
Global Animal Partnership — GAP Step 3/Step 4 (species not stated): not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). “Butcher Box | Products & Brands: Step 3/Step 4/Better Chicken Project” AMBIGUOUS - review. ButcherBox IS list…ed on GAP's brand list (and as an online partner tile linking butcherbox.com), but the entry text does not name a species. GAP's own filter tags the entry only as 'chicken-products-brands', and 'Better Chicken Project' is chicken. Nothing on the registry says ButcherBox BEEF is GAP-certified, so beef is recorded as not listed. Site search for 'Butcher Box' returns only these two entries. |
globalanimalpartnership.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Welfare Certifier check |
American Humane Certified — American Humane Certified: not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). American Humane Society's 'Certified Farm Producers' list: all 97 producers on one page (FacetWP total_rows 97, per_page -1…). Searched names and websites for 'butcherbox', 'butcher box': no match. The registry has no beef producer type at all (types: Dairy, Eggs, Meat [Broiler Chicken, Duck, Pork, Turkey], Products and Retail). |
americanhumane.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Welfare Certifier check |
A Greener World — Certified Animal Welfare Approved by AGW / Certified Grassfed by AGW: not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Crawled all 242 listings in the AGW directory's Beef category (21 pages, title/website/des…cription) for 'butcherbox', 'butcher box', and ran the directory keyword search (searches titles and descriptions, all categories) for 'ButcherBox', 'Butcher Box': no listing names this seller, as either a farm or an outlet. |
agreenerworld.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Raised Certifier check |
American Grassfed Association — AGA Certified Grassfed: not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Not in AGA's 'Find A Certified AGA Producer' directory. That page embeds a kViewer list, and all 94 records came back from…its records API. We searched farm name, contact, email and website for the seller's name. 11 records show no farm name; their map points fall in IA/WI/IN/MI/AR/OK/NY, so they can't be tied to any seller. |
americangrassfed.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Welfare Certifier check |
Audubon Conservation Ranching — Audubon Certified bird-friendly land: not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Not in Audubon's 'ACR Enrolled Retailers' layer, the ArcGIS map embedded on Audubon's 'Where To Buy Bird-Fri…endly Beef & Bison' page. We pulled all 2,736 records through the layer's query API (last edited 2026-08-28) and searched the Retailer, Brand, Source Ranch, Website and Address fields. Audubon's public enrolled-ranches layer gives no ranch names, so ranches can't be matched. |
audubon.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Land certification Certifier check |
Land to Market (Savory Institute) — Ecological Outcome Verified (Land to Market Verified): not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Not among the 62 member-brand logos on Land to Market's public /members page. It has no…landtomarket.com/partners/ profile and no hit in landtomarket.com site search. Caveats: the page claims '100+ members brands' but shows 62. It uses the old site nav and isn't linked from the current homepage. LTM says its live list of verified brands is visible only after a portal login. savory.global returned HTTP 403 to every request, so Savory's own pages weren't checked. |
landtomarket.com ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Organic Certifier check |
Regenerative Organic Certified — two ground beef products only: listed (checked 2026-10-06). “ButcherBox https://www.butcherbox.com PRODUCTS 100% Grassfed Ground Beef, 93% Lean, 7% Fat Primal Blend - Ground Beef, Liver a…nd Heart” Listed in ROA's Brand & Product Directory (https://regenorganic.org/product-directory/). Its directory filter tags are product category 'Beef' and '100% ROC'. The listing covers only these two ground-beef products, not ButcherBox's whole range. NOTE: our file has organic_status 'none' for ButcherBox, which this ROC listing contradicts. |
regenorganic.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Organic Certifier check |
USDA Organic — USDA Organic (NOP) certified operation - beef livestock or beef handling scope: not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Searched OID operation-name filter (contains match, status=All) for: 'ButcherBox', …'Butcher Box'. 0 results for every term. |
organic.ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Antibiotics Certifier check |
USDA Process Verified Program — No USDA PVP for beef (checked for No Antibiotics Ever, Never Ever 3, NHTC, no added hormones, grass fed): not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Searched the Official Listing of Approve…d USDA Process Verified Programs (Last Revised October 02, 2026; 82 pp, 172 certificates) and the AMS PVP Directory (80 entries) for the seller's brand/company and known parent names. No company or program text names this seller. Only beef PVPs on the listing: Bord Bia - Irish Food Board (Irish Grass Fed Beef, PV6034ZZA), Cargill Meat Solutions (Beef Tenderness, PV5269ZZA), INAC Uruguay (incl. 'INAC Never Ever 3', grass fed; PV4106ZZA), Meat & Livestock Australia (MSA eating quality, PV5062ZZA). Note: antibiotic claim on file 'never_ever_certified' and hormone claim on file 'no_added_hormones_certified' is not corroborated by any USDA PVP listing. |
ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Hormones Certifier check |
USDA NHTC Program — Non-Hormone Treated Cattle (NHTC) approved source (EU export verification): not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Searched the AMS 'Official Listing of Approved Sources of Non-Hormone Treated Catt…le' (linked from ams.usda.gov/services/imports-exports/nhtc; Last Revised April 25, 2025; 14 approved sources: AzTx Cattle Co., BeefTraxx, Big Blue Sale Barn, EarthClaims, Elite Beef Producers, FSNS Certification & Audit, IMI Global (Where Food Comes From), Legacy Verified, Lindsay Ranch, M&R Cattle Company, Morgan Ranch, Ranchers Connecting Ranchers, Samson LLC, TechniTrack). No match by brand or parent. Caveat: individual farms/ranches enrolled under these cattle-management-group programs are listed on FSIS PartnerShare, which is not public; the 'NHTC Supplier List' .xls linked on the AMS page is a blank template. So a seller's cattle could be NHTC-enrolled through a CMG without appearing on this public list. Hormone claim on file 'no_added_hormones_certified' is not corroborated by this listing. |
ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | ButcherBox All their beef |
Raised Certifier check |
USDA Grass Fed Small and Very Small Producer Program — USDA Grass (Forage) Fed claim - SVS Grass Fed Program (beef): not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Searched the 'Official Listing of Operations Included on the …USDA SVS Grass Fed Program' for beef (linked from ams.usda.gov/services/auditing/grass-fed-SVS; Last Revised September 3, 2026; 38 operations). No match by brand or parent. Program is limited to producers marketing 49 or fewer cattle per year. |
ams.usda.gov ↗ |