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 | Chicago Steak Company All their beef |
Welfare Certifier check |
Certified Humane — Certified Humane Raised and Handled: not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Searched all 207 company rows (company, products-certified and website columns) of the Who's Certified table (page dateMod…ified 2026-08-11) for 'chicago steak', 'mychicagosteak': no match. |
certifiedhumane.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Chicago Steak Company All their beef |
Welfare Certifier check |
Global Animal Partnership — GAP Animal Welfare Certified (any Step): not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). GAP publishes no farm/operation search; its public registry is the 'For Shoppers' list of G.A.P. Certified br…ands and online partners (~58 brand entries, all on one page; /shoppers/page/2/ is empty). Searched that list plus GAP's own site search (admin-ajax autocomplete, which indexes the brand entries) for 'chicago steak', 'mychicagosteak': no match. Brand-level only, so a seller selling GAP-certified beef under a supplier's brand would not appear. |
globalanimalpartnership.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Chicago Steak Company 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 'chicago steak', 'mychicagosteak': 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 | Chicago Steak Company 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 'chicago steak', 'mychicagosteak', and ran the directory keyword search (searches titles and descriptions, all categories) for 'Chicago Steak': no listing names this seller, as either a farm or an outlet. |
agreenerworld.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Chicago Steak Company 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 | Chicago Steak Company 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 | Chicago Steak Company 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 | Chicago Steak Company All their beef |
Organic Certifier check |
Regenerative Organic Certified — Regenerative Organic Certified: not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). Not among the 379 brands in ROA's Brand & Product Directory or the 561 producers in its Certified Farm & Ranch Di…rectory (https://regenorganic.org/certified-farm-ranch-directory/). Both lists loaded in full, and we searched names, websites and product text. |
regenorganic.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Chicago Steak Company 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: 'Chicago Steak…'. 0 results for every term. |
organic.ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Chicago Steak Company 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). |
ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Chicago Steak Company 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. |
ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Chicago Steak Company 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 ↗ |