Thursday, March 15, 2012

State fairs try to bring back honest shows, end cheating

It has been a quiet summer so far on the state fair circuit, andthat is exactly what the people who run the fairs have been prayingfor. The one thing they cannot afford is a repeat of the disastrous1994 publicity that threatened to cost them the apple-pie reputationthey spent years building up.

Two years ago, contestants were caught administering illegaldrugs to livestock in show competition at the Ohio State Fair, theTulsa State Fair in Oklahoma and Denver's National Western StockShow. Seven of the top 10 steers at the Ohio fair tested positivefor clenbuterol, a potentially dangerous muscle-growth stimulant, orwere found to have had vegetable oil or air injected under …

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