The Ottawa Valley Meats website lacks detailed meat sourcing info vs. other companies. Ottawa Valley Meats mention "most affordable farm-to-plate experience", yet charge $2000 more for butcher meat vs. other reviewed companies via Meat Delivery Toronto. Farm Club, Papa Earth, Farm-2-Fork, Chef's Cut Butcher Boxes, and butcherbox.ca are more affordable than Ottawa Valley Meats. - 11/17/2023 OVM state "shortages in many grocery stores". Meat Delivery Toronto contacted various grocery store managers in Toronto and Ottawa: no meat shortages found. Disinformation? Ottawa Valley Meats is also comparing to grocery stores; potentially referencing similar meat quality at Ottawa Valley Meats and grocery stores such as Loblaw, Costco, and Walmart. Link showing "shortages" here. Link showing "most affordable" here.

truLOCAL has been operating since 2016 with monthly meat delivery subscriptions for butcher meat box delivery, however their ordering process doesn't show individual product cost. truLOCAL provides transparent sourcing with meat and fish suppliers such as: Townsend Butchers, West Gray Premium Beef, Caudle's Catch, Heritage Cattle Co., Beverly Creek Farms, 3Gen Organics, Majestic Water Buffalo, Cory Van Gronigen, Springhills Trout Farm, and Afishionado Fishongers. truLocal charges $5808.71 per year for Toronto Meat Delivery; over $2500 more per year for meat delivery and fish delivery vs. Farm Club. Meat delivery in Toronto with truLocal mentions "quality meat" and "doesn't have to be expensive", but meatdeliverytoronto.ca found Tru Local to be more expensive for equivalent meat & fish delivery compared to others.

Nutrafarms Toronto, GTA meat ordering service requires your contact information to discuss seafood and meat delivery. Nutrafarms sent more than 6 emails over a period of time to provide a yearly cost for meat and fish delivery: $7904.00 per year; over $4500/yr more than other reviewed companies via Meat Delivery Toronto. Two phone calls from commission-based sales representatives and voicemails were later received back to back. Nutrafarms pricing is not transparent, as other Toronto butcher meat box pricing can be found elsewhere in the Toronto, GTA and immediately online without the hassle. Nutrafarms provide transparent sourcing deals about their chicken and beef; similar farm quality providers as other Meat Delivery Toronto reviews. Concerns found online with Nutrafarms: Complaints Board reviews (source here) and personal Nutrafarms experiences via Reddit (link here).

A Cut Above Meats Inc. Fish & Organics would have a better price if they didn't charge "HST" for fish and meat delivery. A Cut Above Meats is not a grocery store which is to charge the harmonized sales tax; they sell Fish and raw meat which are classified as zero-rated foods with a should be GST/HST rate of 0%. The only meat delivery company within the reviews with meatdeliverytoronto.ca in 2021 and continuing into 2024 whom charge the unnecessary "HST" is A Cut Above Meats. Toronto meat delivery customers can visit this Canada.ca website link here, and scroll down to the category "What is the GST/HST?" - then look for the sub-category title "Zero-rated supplies". A Cut Above Meats has problematic price transparency, concerning unnecessary ordering process charges, and expensive cost to order bulk fish and meat. Toronto, GTA meat sourcing information with A Cut Above Meats however is detailed with supplier info.