Substantive corrections and changes to Real Meat Directory's guides, law pages, answers and listings, newest first, with the date of each change.
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When we find or are told about an error, we fix it, update the page's "Last reviewed" date and, for substantive changes, add an entry here. "Correction" means something on the site was wrong or unclear. "Update" means we added or changed information. Typos and layout changes aren't listed.
We added a full Privacy Policy (what our forms, newsletter signup and cookieless Cloudflare Web Analytics collect, who processes it, how long we keep it and your choices), short privacy notes under our forms, and an advertising and sponsorship disclosure in our Terms: paid placements will always be labeled "Sponsored," payment never changes how listings are checked, and we don't use affiliate links today.
Advertise: added founding advertiser interest form. Businesses can now tell us they're interested in advertising before it opens, with no commitment. Free listings are never affected by payment.
Homepage: added the story behind the site. The new section on the homepage links to our About page.
About page added. About Real Meat Directory explains why the site was started, how AI tools help, and what it aims to do.
Removed an unconfirmed count of states with cell-cultivated/plant-based labeling laws from our Cell-Cultivated and Plant-Based Labels guide and Ask the Bots. The pages now say that a number of states have passed their own labeling laws and that the National Agricultural Law Center tracks them.
On the Meat Laws page and three label guides (How to Read Meat Labels, Cell-Cultivated and Plant-Based Labels and "Product of USA" in 2026), we added source links right after important factual claims. The links point to sources the pages already listed. No facts were changed.
Every directory listing page now shows its listing details in one place, its state's meat inspection status from USDA FSIS's list, questions to ask the business, and the sources behind the listing. The added information comes only from data we already had; it makes no new claims about any business.
We corrected the short description of our Editorial Standards page that appears in search results, so it matches what the page says about how AI tools help us.
This page now lists substantive changes and corrections, with dates. Smaller fixes, such as typos and layout changes, aren't listed.
We corrected and expanded the grass-fed explanation in Issue #1 to match FSIS's August 2024 guideline (FSIS-GD-2024-0006): forage only after weaning, how partial claims like "fed grass and corn" must be labeled, and that "grass finished" isn't the same as grass-fed.
The Ask the Bots answer on state bans now matches the Meat Laws page: nine states have passed laws banning or pausing cell-cultivated meat sales, including Louisiana's 2026 ban, which isn't in effect yet. Answers about the inspection mark now note that state-inspected meat carries a state mark and some exempt products carry none. The answer on cell-cultivated products now says they're grown from real animal cells, and that our "real meat" shorthand isn't a claim they're "fake."
We clarified the wording on our Suggest, Add a business, Badge, Terms and Why Real Meat pages. Listings are either self-declared by the business or marked "Unclaimed" when we added them from the business's own website. We say we "check" listings against public sources rather than "verify" them, and the "Self-Declared Real Meat" badge applies only to businesses that make the self-declaration.
State laws on cell-cultivated and plant-based meat sales and labels were checked against official state sources and court records as of October 18, 2026. See the state tables.
The directory opened with 180 listings in 40 states. Each listing has its own page, is marked "Unclaimed" until the business claims it, and shows the website it was checked against and the date.
Found a mistake, an outdated rule, a broken source link or a wrong listing? Email [email protected] with the page, what's wrong and, if you can, a source. Businesses can correct or remove their own listing for free at any time.