The 'Oscars' of food: Several Portland chefs vie for Beard awards

The guy who posted below me is on some odd rant.  Normal people, take no heed.  All is well.  Three James Beard award is a good thing for Portland.  

Hey Portland enjoy it while you can. I'm sure you will be the first state to tax this.

Fart Tax

So this is what we've come to.  We've gone to hell without even a hand-basket.  The government wants to tax cow, sheep, and pig farts, can human farts be far behind? Watch your dogs and cats, gerbils and guinea pigs, they could be next too.   Oh wait, according to the church of Al Gore and his followers humans are the main cause of something that does not even exist.  We've gone over to the dark side people.  We must ask ourselves two questions:  

(1) Who will this help?  The answer to this questions is NO ONE.  Oh wait, it will help the government with more money to throw away.  It will help Al Gore.

(2) Who will this hurt?  In the long run, this will hurt everyone.  In the short term, this will hurt farmers, who are already struggling to keep afloat.   It will hurt the consumer when they go to the grocery to buy food to feed their families.  It will hurt restaurants.  And on and on.

EPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases.
Farm Bureau warns just this one rule may increase milk production costs up to 8 cents a gallon. 

Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock.

The ANPR, released early this year, would give the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas for not only greenhouse gas from manmade sources like transportation and industry, but also “stationary” sources which would include livestock.

The New York Farm Bureau assigned a price tag to the cost of greenhouse gas regulation by the EPA in a release last month.

“The tax for dairy cows could be $175 per cow, and $87.50 per head of beef cattle. The tax on hogs would upwards of $20 per hog,” the release said. “Any operation with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs would have to obtain permits.”  [snip - fart]

Even

“If GHG emissions from agricultural sources are regulated under the CAA, numerous farming operations that currently are not subject to the costly and time-consuming Title V permitting process would, for the first time, become covered entities. Even very small agricultural operations would meet a 100-tons-per-year emissions threshold. For example, dairy facilities with over 25 cows, beef cattle operations of over 50 cattle, swine operations with over 200 hogs, and farms with over 500 acres of corn may need to get a Title V permit. It is neither efficient nor practical to require permitting and reporting of GHG emissions from farms of this size. Excluding only the 200,000 largest commercial farms, our agricultural landscape is comprised of 1.9 million farms with an average value of production of $25,589 on 271 acres. These operations simply could not bear the regulatory compliance costs that would be involved.”  

ppo

(Portland promotes obesity)

Not familiar with any of these chefs, sadly.  Now when Gabriel Rucker was competing for it and won it, I was rooting for him all the way.  Le Pigeon is amazing (and Little Bird, too)

This is awesome.  I've been to two out of the three, and now will be making a trip to Country Cat next week.  

The guy that invented the McRib should get the nobel peace medal.

Who cares about the "Oscars" of food. Stay home, cook at home, and eat at home, and you will be way ahead of the curve on financial worries! Besides, you can't use food stamps to obtain these glitzy meals! What a waste of time and effort to make food that Oregonians can't afford and won't go to Portland to eat!  

@jtierney6 @ValerieHurst unless these stories are about 'Lil Wayne's (alleged) near-death state I am uninterested.