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 | Rastellis Grass-Fed Ribeye (2-count, 10 oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | Weekly check SOLD OUT 2026-10-12: (2) 10 oz $39.99 (~$32/lb) still displayed but sold out | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Rastellis Grass-Fed Ribeye (2-count, 10 oz) |
Raised Seller’s words |
Evidence attached to this steak | “Made from 100% Grass-Fed cattle, this boneless Ribeye is a little leaner than its grain-finished counterpart” (read 2026-10-06) | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Rastellis Organic Grass-Fed Ribeye (2-count, 10 oz) |
Raised Seller’s words |
Evidence attached to this steak | “Organic Grass-Fed Ribeye” (read 2026-10-06) | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Rastellis Organic Grass-Fed Ribeye (2-count, 10 oz) |
Organic Seller’s words |
Evidence attached to this steak | “Sourced from organic cattle raised on certified organic farms in the United States” (read 2026-10-06) | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Welfare Certifier check |
Certified Humane — Certified Humane Raised and Handled: not listed for beef (checked 2026-10-06). “Rastellis Bros Inc dba Rastelli Foods Group | Good Chop Organic & Free Range Ground Chicken; Butcher Box Ground Beef, But…cher Box Various Beef Cuts” JUDGMENT CALL - review. The operating company IS a Certified Humane client (row 'Rastellis Bros Inc dba Rastelli Foods Group', website rastellis.com), but the certified products it lists are Good Chop chicken and ButcherBox-branded beef ('Butcher Box Ground Beef, Butcher Box Various Beef Cuts'). No Rastelli-branded beef is listed, so beef sold under the Rastelli's brand is recorded as not listed. Flip to 'listed' only if company-level certification is meant to count. |
certifiedhumane.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Rastellis 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 'rastelli': 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 | Rastellis 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 'rastelli': 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 | Rastellis 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 'rastelli', and ran the directory keyword search (searches titles and descriptions, all categories) for 'Rastelli', 'Rastellis': no listing names this seller, as either a farm or an outlet. |
agreenerworld.org ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Rastellis 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 | Rastellis 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 | Rastellis 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 | Rastellis 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 | Rastellis All their beef |
Organic Certifier check |
USDA Organic — organic beef at Rastelli Foods; company-name match, products not tied to the seller: listed (checked 2026-10-06). “Operation Name: Rastelli Brothers, Inc. dba Rastelli Foods; Operation Status: Certified; C…ertifier: [CCOF] CCOF Certification Services, LLC; HANDLING Certified 07/16/2010 Other: Beef (Beef Cubes), Beef (Boneless Ribeye - Blade Tenderized), Beef (Boxed Boneless Brisket), ... Beef (Filet Mignon)” Searched OID operation-name filter (contains match, status=All) for: 'Rastelli'. Via operating company 'Rastelli Brothers, Inc. dba Rastelli Foods' (300 Heron Dr., Swedesboro, NJ; website on record www.rastelli.com; business type Co-packer; NOP ID 5561002547). Match is on the Rastelli company/brand name; the OID record lists rastelli.com, not the seller's DTC domain rastellis.com. HANDLING scope only (no LIVESTOCK scope); certifies the listed organic beef SKUs, not the whole Rastelli's range. |
organic.ams.usda.gov ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Rastellis 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 | Rastellis 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 | Rastellis 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 | Rastellis All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Grass-Fed Ribeye / Organic Grass-Fed Ribeye” (read 2026-10-06) | shop.rastellis.com ↗ | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
“Black Angus New York Strip Steak” (read 2026-10-06) | shop.rastellis.com ↗ | |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Rastellis Grass-Fed Ribeye (2-count, 10 oz) |
Grade Checked: not stated |
No USDA grade stated | Checked 2026-09-30: no grade stated. Pages: https://shop.rastellis.com/products/grass-fed-ribeye https://shop.rastellis.com/pages/about-our-products https://shop.rastellis.com/pages/faq (Q&A rendered by JS; body not retr…ievable) https://shop.rastellis.com/products.json (all 167 products) |
shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Rastellis Organic Grass-Fed Ribeye (2-count, 10 oz) |
Grade Checked: not stated |
No USDA grade stated | Checked 2026-09-30: no grade stated. Pages: https://shop.rastellis.com/products/organic-grass-fed-ribeye https://shop.rastellis.com/pages/about-our-products https://shop.rastellis.com/pages/faq (Q&A rendered by JS; body …not retrievable) https://shop.rastellis.com/products.json (all 167 products) |
shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Rastellis Grass-Fed Ribeye (2-count, 10 oz) |
Price Weekly price check |
$20.00 per steak · $32.00/lb | Shopify variant "Grass-Fed Ribeye / (2) 10 oz. steaks" = $39.99 / 2 = $20 per steak (only option) | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Shipping Seller’s words |
One-off orders | “Standard shipping is $19.99 - and FREE on orders over $199.” | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis Grass-Fed Ribeye (2-count, 10 oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | Listing is 2-count 10 oz steaks for $39.99 -> $39.99/2 = $19.995 (~$20.00) per 10 oz steak -> $19.995 / (10/16) = $19.995 * 1.6 = $31.99/lb. Sold out. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis Organic Grass-Fed Ribeye (2-count, 10 oz) |
Price basis Seller’s words |
How we read the price and size | Listing is 2-count 10 oz steaks for $34.99 -> $34.99/2 = $17.495 (~$17.50) per 10 oz steak -> $17.495 * 1.6 = $27.99/lb. Page: 'wet aged for a minimum of 21 days'. Sold out. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Raised Seller’s words |
Mixed lines | 3 lines: grain-finished Black Angus (corn-finished 120 days), non-organic 100% grass-fed, and 'Organic, grass-fed and finished'. Stored grass_fed_grain_finished missed the other two. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Antibiotics Seller’s words |
Raised without antibiotics | 'Free from antibiotics'; guaranteed via required farmer affidavits, not a USDA PVP/third-party never-ever program. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Hormones Seller’s words |
No added hormones | 'Free from added hormones' via farmer affidavits; no certified/NHTC program. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Steroids Seller’s words |
No steroids | 'Free from steroids' via required farmer affidavits; not third-party certified. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Diet Seller’s words |
Vegetarian diet of grass and feed | 'Vegetarian diets'; grass-fed lines eat grass, Angus line grass-fed then corn-finished 120 days = grass + feed. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Origin Seller’s words |
Mixed origin | Beef from 'heartlands of America'; Angus born/raised US. Grass-fed origin not stated USA-only + mixed sourcing, so product_of_usa is the defensible herd floor. 2026-10-11: recorded as mixed, per this note: not all of its…beef is stated to be American. |
shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Organic Seller’s words |
None | Herd-wide not organic; only one certified-organic line exists (organic grass-fed). Reviews confirm 'that doesn't mean it's all organic'. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Welfare Seller’s words |
None | No AWA/Certified Humane/GAP/AGA on site. A non-vocab 'USDA low-stress' marketing claim exists for the Angus line only, not herd-wide/third-party. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Delivery Seller’s words |
Flash-frozen | About page: 'Blast Frozen at Arctic Temperatures' at -40F, vacuum sealed; products page 'All products shipped frozen'. More precise than stored 'frozen'. No fresh option. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
USDA grade Seller’s words |
Choice | 9oz online SKU marketed as 'Black Angus', no higher grade claim; Rastelli's Angus retail line (cowboy/tomahawk/bone-in) is uniformly 'USDA Choice Black Angus'. Explicit Prime is the separate Private Stock line. Self-clai…med label grade. |
shop.rastellis.com ↗ costco.com ↗ samsclub.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Wagyu content Seller’s words |
None | Benchmark is a Black Angus (Bos taurus Angus) ribeye; no wagyu genetics claimed. Rastelli's does not market a wagyu ribeye, so this attribute is 'none' for the everyday Angus steak. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ amazon.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Marbling Seller’s words |
Not stated | Copy is qualitative only: 'Wet-aged 45 days to unlock deep, juicy marbling and rich beefy taste.' No BMS number and no USDA marbling-grade figure stated for this SKU. | desertcart.in ↗ amazon.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Aging Seller’s words |
Wet-aged 45 days | Benchmark 9oz Black Angus ribeye is 'Wet-aged 45 days', hand-trimmed, vacuum sealed. Note: the separate Private Stock Prime ribeye SKUs are wet-aged 21-28 days; not conflated here. Self-claimed. | desertcart.in ↗ amazon.com ↗ |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Rastellis All their beef |
Sourcing Seller’s words |
US small family farms, midwestern plains; affidavit-backed inputs | Butcher est. 1976; sources from 'best family farms' using zero hormones/steroids/antibiotics; requires farmer affidavits. Also a wholesale butcher supplying Costco, Sam's, QVC, Sunbasket. | shop.rastellis.com ↗ carnivorestyle.com ↗ sunbasket.com ↗ |