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 | Pursuit Farms9 steaksJapanese A5 Wagyu Ribeye - Standard Kumamoto (2 x 16 oz)Japanese A5 Wagyu Ribeye - Premium Pursuit Farms Female Wagyu (2 x 16 oz) Thick Cut Japanese Wagyu A4 or A5 Ribeye (28-30 oz, single) Pursuit Farms Exclusive Female Wagyu Ribeye (1 x 15-16 oz) Pursuit Farms Exclusive Female Wagyu Ribeye (2 x 16 oz) American Wagyu Ribeye - Boneless (2 pack, 14 oz each) American Wagyu Ribeye - Boneless (6 pack, 14 oz each) American Wagyu Ribeye - Bone-in (whole, 3-3.5 lb average) Australian Wagyu Thick-Cut Boneless Ribeye (2 x 24 oz) |
Raised Checked: not stated |
Evidence attached to this steak | The listing doesn’t say how the cattle were raised (read 2026-10-06). | pursuitfarms.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Pursuit Farms 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 'pursuit farms', 'pursuitfarms': no match. |
certifiedhumane.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Pursuit Farms 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 'pursuit farms', 'pursuitfarms': 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 | Pursuit Farms 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 'pursuit farms', 'pursuitfarms': 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 | Pursuit Farms 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 'pursuit farms', 'pursuitfarms', and ran the directory keyword search (searches titles and descriptions, all categories) for 'Pursuit Farms': no listing names this seller, as either a farm or an outlet. |
agreenerworld.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Pursuit Farms 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 | Pursuit Farms 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 | Pursuit Farms 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 | Pursuit Farms 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 | Pursuit Farms 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: 'Pursuit Farms…', 'Pursuit'. 0 results for every term. |
organic.ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Pursuit Farms 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 | Pursuit Farms 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 | Pursuit Farms 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 | Pursuit Farms All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Our cattle have daily access to fresh pasture and sunlight, which we believe contributes not just to their wellbeing, but also to the integrity of the final product.” (read 2026-10-06) | pursuitfarms.com ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Pursuit Farms All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Barley and organic corn for a strong nutritional base” (read 2026-10-06) | pursuitfarms.com ↗ | |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Pursuit Farms All their beef |
Antibiotics Seller’s words |
Not disclosed | No antibiotic claim anywhere (Our Story, Our Beefs, FAQ). Premium Wagyu importer; no RWA/never-ever claim. Rechecked 2026-09-30: Only some products: Ozaki Beef products only (e.g. 'NEW: Ozaki Beef - A4 BMS 7 ...' striplo…in/ribeye and the A5 BMS 10-11 striploin at /products/ozakibeef2x16oz). The claim is spec — "It comprises 15 kinds of feed, such as grass from the meadow, moist barley mash (a by-product of beer brewing), maize, barley, and so forth, with no preservatives or antibiotics whatsoever." Pages: https://pursuitfarms.com/products/thick-cut-a4-or-a5-ribeye-28-30-oz-fresh https://pursuitfarms.com/products/pursuitfarmsfemalewagyustrip-mh5bs https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/our-beefs https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/about-pursuitfarms https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/certificates https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/wagyu-of-japan https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/shipping-faqs https://pursuitfarms.com/collections/japanese-wagyu |
pursuitfarms.com ↗ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Pursuit Farms All their beef |
Hormones Seller’s words |
Not disclosed | No hormone claim anywhere on site. No 'no added hormones' statement present. Rechecked 2026-09-30: No statement covering their beef as a whole. Pages: https://pursuitfarms.com/products/thick-cut-a4-or-a5-ribeye-28-30-oz-…fresh https://pursuitfarms.com/products/pursuitfarmsfemalewagyustrip-mh5bs https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/our-beefs https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/about-pursuitfarms https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/certificates https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/wagyu-of-japan https://pursuitfarms.com/pages/shipping-faqs https://pursuitfarms.com/collections/japanese-wagyu |
pursuitfarms.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Pursuit Farms All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
Pasture-raised, grain-finished | Wagyu. Australian 'pastured on grass 18 months' then 'barley ration over 400 days'; Domestic 50/50 Wagyu-Angus grain-finished. Pasture-raised then grain-finished, not feedlot. | pursuitfarms.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Pursuit Farms All their beef |
Steroids Seller’s words |
Not disclosed | No steroid claim present on any page. | pursuitfarms.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Pursuit Farms All their beef |
Diet Seller’s words |
Not disclosed | Finishing feed described (barley ration, grains; olive pulp for one line) but no formal vegetarian-fed diet claim across the herd. | pursuitfarms.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Pursuit Farms All their beef |
Organic Seller’s words |
None | No organic certification or claim anywhere on site. | pursuitfarms.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Pursuit Farms All their beef |
Welfare Seller’s words |
None | No welfare cert (AWA/GAP/Certified Humane/American Humane). Only Japanese beef program certs (Kobe, Omi), which are authenticity/appellation, not welfare. | pursuitfarms.com ↗ |