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 | Porter Road | Raised Seller’s words |
Evidence attached to this steak | “Raised on pasture with no antibiotics and no hormones, this is beef you can feel great about.” (read 2026-10-06) | porterroad.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road Tomahawk Ribeye (Dry Aged) |
Raised Seller’s words |
Evidence attached to this steak | “At Porter Road, we partner with farmers who raise their animals on pasture, with no hormones or antibiotics, for a difference you can taste.” (read 2026-10-06) | porterroad.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road Cowboy Cut Ribeye (Dry Aged, 2 inch) |
Raised Seller’s words |
Evidence attached to this steak | “This 2-inch-thick steak is pasture-raised and dry aged with a frenched bone.” (read 2026-10-06) | porterroad.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road 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 'porter road', 'porterroad': no match. |
certifiedhumane.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road 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 'porter road', 'porterroad': 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 | Porter Road 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 'porter road', 'porterroad': 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 | Porter Road 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 'porter road', 'porterroad', and ran the directory keyword search (searches titles and descriptions, all categories) for 'Porter Road': no listing names this seller, as either a farm or an outlet. |
agreenerworld.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road 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 | Porter Road 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. The only 'porter' hit is a street address (The Truck Patch, 402 Porter Wagoner Blvd, West Plains MO; a Thousand Hills stockist). It is unrelated. |
audubon.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road 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 | Porter Road 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 | Porter Road 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: 'Porter Road',…'Porter Rd'. 0 results for every term. |
organic.ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road 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 | Porter Road 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 | Porter Road 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 ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Pasture-raised, which all of Porter Road’s products are, means that the animal lived outside for the majority of its life” (read 2026-10-06) | porterroad.com ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Our beef is allowed to freely graze on grasses year round but are offered a grain supplement on pasture, able to eat as much or as little of that grain as they'd like.” (read 2026-10-06) | porterroad.com ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Our animals are raised outside on pasture never in a concentrated animal feed operation or feedlot.” (read 2026-10-06) | porterroad.com ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Hickory Nut Gap 100% grass-fed, grass-finished ribeyes offer deep, layered flavor thanks to cattle raised using regenerative practices.” (read 2026-10-06) | porterroad.com ↗ | |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
Mixed lines | Core PR line = pasture-raised + grain-finished (grain supplement on pasture); catalog also carries Hickory Nut Gap 100% grass-fed & grass-finished. Both sold on porterroad.com = mixed. | porterroad.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Antibiotics Seller’s words |
Raised without antibiotics | 'We never use any growth hormones or antibiotics.' Self-claimed, not third-party never-ever certified. Cattle receive vaccinations (allowed under RWA). | porterroad.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Hormones Seller’s words |
No added hormones | 'We never use any growth hormones.' Self-claimed on their own FAQ, no NHTC/third-party verification. | porterroad.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Steroids Seller’s words |
Not disclosed | No separate steroid claim or certification; only growth hormones addressed. Not disclosed. | porterroad.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Diet Seller’s words |
Vegetarian diet of grass and feed | Core line grazes grass year-round plus a grain supplement; HNG line grass-only. Herd overall grass + plant feed, no animal byproducts. | porterroad.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Organic Seller’s words |
None | 'Because we work with such small farms, they don't have the official certification.' Not organic-certified. | porterroad.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Porter Road All their beef |
Welfare Seller’s words |
None | Porter Road's own farms assert no third-party welfare cert (AWA/GAP/Certified Humane) on product pages; only general 'highest animal husbandry standards.' | porterroad.com ↗ |