Open Prairie Natural Angus (Tyson Fresh Meats)
Industrial — a Tyson Fresh Meats brand.
Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, USA
openprairienatural.com ↗verification source ↗
Quality assessment
A LABEL OVER A PACKER'S SUPPLY NETWORK, and the honest reading is that the label is the product. The never-ever criteria are audited at ranch level and the DNA traceability claim is more than most packer brands offer — but no ranch is named, nothing about the brand describes how any particular animal was raised, and Tyson publicly curtailed the antibiotic-free beef programme in 2024 while the brand name continued. A venue naming 'Open Prairie' on a menu has named a Tyson SKU.
- Scale
- Industrial — a Tyson Fresh Meats brand.
- Feed & inputs
- PUBLISHED AND SPECIFIC — 100% vegetarian, no animal by-products; independently audited at ranch level.
- Animal welfare
- No welfare standard published beyond the never-ever antibiotic/hormone criteria, which are residue claims, not welfare ones.
- Environmental
- Nothing located.
- Transparency
- MEDIUM — the programme criteria are published; the supply network is entirely unnamed and the 2024 retrenchment of the antibiotic-free beef line was reported by press rather than disclosed prominently by the brand.
Caveats
TYSON LABEL — file as brand-program, never as a farm. Reported curtailment of antibiotic-free beef from January 2024 means the brand's headline claim may not describe current product; treat any venue's 'Open Prairie' claim as a SKU reference and re-check before crediting the never-ever criteria. No registry row — a non-match.
A Tyson Fresh Meats 'never-ever' consumer brand: Angus beef and pork from animals raised without antibiotics, added hormones or growth promotants on a vegetarian diet, sourced from an unnamed network of contracted ranchers.
Products
Angus beefpork
Practices
never-ever programme: no antibiotics, no added hormones or growth promotants100% vegetarian diet with no animal by-products (milk excepted)independent ranch-level verification audit on the never-ever criteriaDNA traceability marketed under Tyson's Trusted Path programme
Served at
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- tysonfreshmeats.com ↗
Tyson Fresh Meats brand, never-ever criteria, vegetarian diet
- provisioneronline.com ↗
Ranch-level independent verification, DNA traceability / Trusted Path
- eu.detroitnews.com ↗
2024 curtailment of the antibiotic-free beef programme