| RAISING CLAIM |
Industrial Beef |
Organic Beef |
Grassfed Beef |
100% Grassfed Beef |
Pasture-Raised 100% Grassfed Beef |
Demeter Biodynamic Beef |
Nutrient Farm Beef |
| 1) No genetically-modified organisms (GMO) |
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✔ |
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✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| 2) No sythetic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides |
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✔ |
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✔ |
✔ |
| 3) No human biosludge |
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✔ |
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✔ |
✔ |
| 4) No irradiation |
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✔ |
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✔ |
✔ |
| 5) Eats > 33% grass |
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✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| 6) Eats ~ 100% grass |
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✔ |
✔ |
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✔ |
| 7) Entire farm/ranch operated organically/biodynamically |
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✔ |
✔ |
| 8) Crop integration |
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✔ |
✔ |
| 9) Livestock integration |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| 10) Livestock humanely raised |
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✔ |
✔ |
| 11) Minimal importation of fertility |
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✔ |
✔ |
| 12) Biodydamic preparations regularly applied |
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✔ |
✔ |
| 13) Feed grown on farm |
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✔ |
(50%) |
✔ |
| 14) Farm set aside for biodiversity |
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(10%) |
(53%) |
| 15) Farm upholds standards of social responsibility |
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✔ |
✔ |
| 16) Vaccine-free (all livestock born on ranch) |
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✔ |
| 17) Low heavy metal verified |
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(upcoming) |
