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 12, 2026 | Mr. Steak USDA Prime Bone-In Ribeye (20oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | Weekly check UNCHANGED 2026-10-12: $69.95 (was $74.95), 20 oz = $55.96/lb; in stock | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mr. Steak | Raised Checked: not stated |
Evidence attached to this steak | The listing doesn’t say how the cattle were raised (read 2026-10-06). | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mr. Steak Japanese A5 Wagyu Boneless Ribeye (16oz) |
Raised Seller’s words |
Evidence attached to this steak | “Farmers meticulously tend to these cattle and feed them a very precise diet of wheat, corn, rice, and barley.” (read 2026-10-06) | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Our Angus and Hereford Cattle are pasture raised and then fed a nutritious diet of locally grown alfalfa, corn, and grains.” (read 2026-10-06) | mrsteak.com ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Our Japanese Wagyu are fed a very precise diet of wheat, rice, corn, and barley” (read 2026-10-06) | mrsteak.com ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Our Natural American Wagyu are meticulously raised on family farms across America.” (read 2026-10-06) | mrsteak.com ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mr. Steak 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 'mr. steak', 'mr steak', 'mrsteak': no match. |
certifiedhumane.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mr. Steak 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 'mr. steak', 'mr steak', 'mrsteak': 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 | Mr. Steak 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 'mr. steak', 'mr steak', 'mrsteak': 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 | Mr. Steak 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 'mr. steak', 'mr steak', 'mrsteak', and ran the directory keyword search (searches titles and descriptions, all categories) for 'Mr. Steak': no listing names this seller, as either a farm or an outlet. |
agreenerworld.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mr. Steak 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 | Mr. Steak 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 | Mr. Steak 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 | Mr. Steak 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 | Mr. Steak 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: 'Mr. Steak', '…Mr Steak', 'MrSteak'. 0 results for every term. |
organic.ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mr. Steak 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 | Mr. Steak 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 | Mr. Steak 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 ↗ | |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Mr. Steak | Aging Seller’s words |
Wet-aged 28 days | 2026-09-30: "Mr. Steak only sells 28-day wet-aged USDA Prime beef. We also sell wagyu beef, which has a different system of grading, coming from Japanese, not American, cows." — The product page says nothing about aging …(live page read 2026-09-30; Wayback copies from 2025 also have none). The value comes from Mr. Steak's own Steak School article 'Meat Grades: Prime vs Choice |
mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Mr. Steak Natural American Wagyu Ribeye (18oz) |
Aging Checked: not stated |
The seller doesn’t say | Checked 2026-09-30: aging not stated. Pages: https://mrsteak.com/products/natural-american-wagyu-ribeye https://mrsteak.com/blogs/steak-school/meat-grades-prime-vs-choice-usda-beef https://mrsteak.com/blogs/steak-school/…what-is-japanese-a5-wagyu-and-american-wagyu https://mrsteak.com/blogs/steak-school/cowboy-ribeye-vs-tomahawk-steaks-difference-between-two-monster-cuts https://mrsteak.com/blogs/steak-school/prime-rib-vs-ribeye-what-s-the-difference https://mrsteak.com/pages/about-us https://mrsteak.com/pages/meatmrsteak https://mrsteak.com/collections/usda-prime |
mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Mr. Steak USDA Prime Cowboy Ribeye (32oz) |
Aging Seller’s words |
Wet-aged 28 days | 2026-09-30: "Mr. Steak only sells 28-day wet-aged USDA Prime beef. We also sell wagyu beef, which has a different system of grading, coming from Japanese, not American, cows." — The product page says nothing about aging …(live page read 2026-09-30; Wayback copies from 2025 also have none). The value comes from Mr. Steak's own Steak School article 'Meat Grades: Prime vs Choice |
mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Mr. Steak Japanese A5 Wagyu Boneless Ribeye (16oz) |
Aging Checked: not stated |
The seller doesn’t say | Checked 2026-09-30: aging not stated. Pages: https://mrsteak.com/products/japanese-a5-wagyu-boneless-ribeye https://mrsteak.com/blogs/steak-school/meat-grades-prime-vs-choice-usda-beef https://mrsteak.com/blogs/steak-sch…ool/what-is-japanese-a5-wagyu-and-american-wagyu https://mrsteak.com/blogs/steak-school/cowboy-ribeye-vs-tomahawk-steaks-difference-between-two-monster-cuts https://mrsteak.com/blogs/steak-school/prime-rib-vs-ribeye-what-s-the-difference https://mrsteak.com/pages/about-us https://mrsteak.com/pages/meatmrsteak https://mrsteak.com/collections/usda-prime |
mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Mr. Steak Natural American Wagyu Ribeye (18oz) |
Antibiotics Seller’s words |
Evidence attached to this steak | 2026-09-30: line-only claim (rwa_self_claimed): "Our American Wagyu is meticulously raised on family farms in the USA. Rated 8-9 on the Japanese BMS scale, all-natural, no antibiotics ever, and no added hormones." | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Mr. Steak Natural American Wagyu Ribeye (18oz) |
Hormones Seller’s words |
Evidence attached to this steak | 2026-09-30: line-only claim (no_added_hormones_self_claimed): "No added hormones" | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Antibiotics Seller’s words |
Not disclosed | 'No antibiotics ever' appears ONLY on the Natural American Wagyu line. Core USDA Prime product pages and About page make no antibiotic claim; not herd-wide, so undisclosed. Rechecked 2026-09-30: Only some products: Natur…al American Wagyu line only (Natural American Wagyu Ribeye; the Wagyu collection copy is about 'Our American Wagyu'). Not the USDA Prime line, not the Japa (our listings 415) — "Our American Wagyu is meticulously raised on family farms in the USA. Rated 8-9 on the Japanese BMS scale, all-natural, no antibiotics ever, and no added hormones." Pages: https://mrsteak.com/pages/about-us https://mrsteak.com/pages/meatmrsteak https://mrsteak.com/collections/usda-prime https://mrsteak.com/collections/wagyu https://mrsteak.com/collections/meat https://mrsteak.com/products/usda-prime-boneless-ribeye https://mrsteak.com/products/usda-prime-cowboy-ribeye https://mrsteak.com/products/natural-american-wagyu-ribeye |
mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Hormones Seller’s words |
Not disclosed | 'No added hormones' stated only on Natural American Wagyu products, not the core USDA Prime line or any site-wide/FAQ page. Not true of all beef, so undisclosed herd-wide. Rechecked 2026-09-30: Only some products: Natura…l American Wagyu line only. Not the USDA Prime line or the Japanese A5 line. (our listings 415) — "No added hormones" Pages: https://mrsteak.com/pages/about-us https://mrsteak.com/pages/meatmrsteak https://mrsteak.com/collections/usda-prime https://mrsteak.com/collections/wagyu https://mrsteak.com/collections/meat https://mrsteak.com/products/usda-prime-boneless-ribeye https://mrsteak.com/products/usda-prime-cowboy-ribeye https://mrsteak.com/products/natural-american-wagyu-ribeye |
mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Shipping Seller’s words |
One-off orders | “Free shipping on orders over $325.” | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak USDA Prime Boneless Ribeye (12oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | 12oz variant, Pack of 1 = $44.95 (single steak = true per-steak price). $/lb = 44.95 / (12/16) = 44.95 / 0.75 = $59.93/lb. Packs (4=$174.95, 8=$339.95) are discounted multiples, not used for per-steak | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak USDA Prime Boneless Ribeye (16oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | 16oz variant, Pack of 1 = $59.95 (single steak). $/lb = 59.95 / (16/16) = 59.95 / 1.0 = $59.95/lb. Listed as its own row because per-steak price differs from the 12oz variant. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak USDA Prime Bone-In Ribeye (20oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | 20oz per steak, Pack of 1 = $69.95 sale (reg $74.95; used sale/current price). $/lb = 69.95 / (20/16) = 69.95 / 1.25 = $55.96/lb. Page states 'wet-aged for 28-days'. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak Natural American Wagyu Ribeye (18oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | 18oz per steak, Pack of 1 = $74.99 sale (reg $99.99; used current sale price). $/lb = 74.99 / (18/16) = 74.99 / 1.125 = $66.66/lb. American Wagyu = cross of Japanese Wagyu genetics + American cattle - | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak USDA Prime Cowboy Ribeye (32oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | 32oz (2 lb) per steak, Pack of 1 = $109.95. $/lb = 109.95 / (32/16) = 109.95 / 2 = $54.98/lb. Cowboy ribeye = bone-in ribeye with Frenched rib bone ('short bone tomahawk'); classified bone_in (not ful | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak Japanese A5 Wagyu Boneless Ribeye (16oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | 16oz per steak, Pack of 1 = $174.99 sale (reg $209.99; used current sale price). $/lb = 174.99 / (16/16) = 174.99 / 1.0 = $174.99/lb. Miyazaki A5 Wagyu, Japanese Black (Kuroge). | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
Pasture-raised, grain-finished | About page: Angus/Hereford 'pasture raised and then fed a nutritious diet of locally grown alfalfa, corn, and grains' = pasture-raised, grain-finished. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Steroids Seller’s words |
Not disclosed | No steroid claim anywhere on the site, including the Natural line pages that do list antibiotic/hormone claims. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Diet Seller’s words |
Vegetarian diet of grass and feed | Herd diet on About page: 'alfalfa, corn, and grains' (forage/alfalfa + grain). Natural line adds '100% vegetarian feed, no animal by-products'. Both = vegetarian grass-and-feed. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Origin Seller’s words |
Product of USA | 'Raised on family farms across the USA' / 'sustainably raised in USA' / Nebraska-raised. Product-of-USA style claim, not a verified born-raised-harvested/NHTC claim. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Organic Seller’s words |
None | No organic certification claimed anywhere. Grain-finished diet; not organic. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Welfare Seller’s words |
None | Only welfare reference is facilities 'designed by Dr. Temple Grandin' — humane-handling design, not a welfare certification (no AWA/AGA/Certified Humane/GAP/American Humane). | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Delivery Seller’s words |
Frozen | Product pages state 'Ships frozen. Individually vacuum sealed'; ships with dry ice. Frozen, not fresh. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
USDA grade Seller’s words |
Prime | Sold as 'USDA Prime Boneless Ribeye'; page: 'Our USDA Prime Boneless Ribeye is something special.' Review calls it top 2-3% of beef. Grade self-asserted on DTC page; no AMS paperwork retrieved. | mrsteak.com ↗ carnivorestyle.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Marbling Seller’s words |
Prime-level | Page: 'beautiful marbling and natural fat content'; 'this naturally fatty cut is unmatched.' Marbling = USDA Prime grade level. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Wagyu content Seller’s words |
None | Benchmark is a conventional Angus/USDA Prime steak, not wagyu. Wagyu claims belong to a separate Natural American Wagyu Ribeye SKU and are NOT inherited here. | mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Aging Seller’s words |
Wet-aged 28 days | USDA Prime line wet-aged 28d: sibling Bone-In Ribeye page states 'Each steak is wet-aged for 28-days and individually packaged.' Boneless page omits day count, so 28d attributed at USDA Prime family level, not steak-spec…ific-verified. |
mrsteak.com ↗ mrsteak.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Mr. Steak All their beef |
Sourcing Seller’s words |
Ranches within 250mi of Omaha NE; top 2-3% | Sources from local ranches ~250mi of Omaha NE ('Napa Valley of Beef') supplying top steakhouses; positioned top 2-3% (USDA Prime). WaPo quote on site re ranchers who supply best steakhouses. | carnivorestyle.com ↗ mrsteak.com ↗ |