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Monday, March 27, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Attracting business to Lawrence takes work, leaders say
attractive place to move."
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Vieuxud Downtown Lawrence would also like to attract new business, specifically a retail space in the downtown area.
"To attract a department store is going to take a long time," Vieux said. "We don't expect one to be built by December of this year, for example."
He said products for children, such as clothing and toys, was an area not covered well by downtown stores.
Another long-term project of Downtown Lawrence is the replacement of street lights.
"The street lights we have are obsolete; they can't get parts for them anymore." Vieux said. "We're recommending that the city replace one block of lights and add one block of lights to an area that doesn't have them yet, such as the 600 block of Massachusetts Street, each year."
Beef ban provokes debate
Cattle raisers are beefing up the livestock industry with steroids.
"We'd like to encourage some larger-scale retail development downtown, get a little
by Max Evans Kansan staff writer
Experts and beef industry officials say there is no excuse for alarm, despite a ban on treated beef.
The United States and the 12-nation European Commission argued about the use of steroids, or growth-hormones, during February's beef trade war. That situation was temporarily defused at the end of February when negotiators agreed on a 75-day cooling-off period.
Michael Dikeman, professor of animal sciences and industry at Kansas State University, said the growth-promoting hormones were used to accelerate the growth of muscle tissue in the cattle. He said the result was beef with less fat, and because it is easier for the body to absorb quickly, maintenance of the animal, such as feeding, transporting and keeping the animal healthy, was reduced.
However, the incident has elevated continued demand for the best industry to assure the public's trust in the food supply.
Dikeman said a few of the growth-promoting hormones were synthetic, but most were naturally occurring steroids, usually estrogen and testosterone, that were taken from cattle and grown in the
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laboratory. He said the hormones were administered by an implant, good for about 100 days, that released a monitored dosage into the animal's bloodstream.
Domer said that because hormone use was misunderstood, an unjustified fear of hormone usage in the beef industry had grown.
"No beef is hormone-free," Domer said. "All animals contain hormones and so do a lot of other things like mayonnaise and dairy products." Dikkeen agrees.
Todd Domer, director of communications for the Kansas Livestock Association, said growth hormones added to cattle were limited to 1 percent of animals that produced daily in a hormonal-sensitive human.
"Peas have about 100 times the estrogen as treated beef," he said.
Because only 10 percent of the hormones are absorbed by the consumer, a person could actually eat 10 times the 474 pounds a day without going exceeding allowed amounts. Domer said.
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