Ferme Morgan

On the weekend, Ian and I headed up north for a wedding at Gray Rocks, which was very enjoyable despite the rainy weather. We decided to drive home by a different route so we could stop in at Morgan Farms.

I'm in the midst of reading the Omnivore's Dilemma, and it is really making me think about eating meat that you get at the supermarket. Ian and I don't eat a lot of meat regularly, and if we do we try to buy it from the market at Jean-Talon. However, after reading this book, it really makes you think twice about where your meat comes from and if you really want to be supporting the type of system used to farm beef in North America on an industrial scale.

So, Morgan Farms is an organic farm but not only that, their animals are grass-fed for the most part, rather than grain-fed. A lot of "big organic" still uses feedlots and gives their animals "organic" corn as food. Anyway, we bought a bunch of meat to put in the freezer and I figure it'll last us two or three weeks. Best of all, Morgan Farms delivers once a week to three locations in Montreal, so you can call up an order and they'll bring it to you in the city.

These types of things really start to matter when you are considering bringing a new life into the world. I don't really want this new baby to have to eat meat that has been pumped full of antibiotics so it won't get sick because it's crammed in with thousands of other animals in too-tight cages.

It's more expensive than supermarket meat, that's for sure. But, for now it is a price I am willing to pay.