It is a threat more ominous than death itself. And by the time you finish reading this paragraph, it will be more severe still. Perhaps it will have grown so severe that stopping it will be out of the question.

Although there is, in truth, no way to check. Now that you have finished the paragraph in question. Still, the threat looms large, and it threatens the health and livelihood of all but the very wealthiest of our citizens.

What is this danger, this unspeakable threat?

Let us be perfectly clear. There are bad things in the milk. And also in the cheese.

The danger, and it is very great, comes in the form of chemicals that scientists have come to call "hormones." Hormones are very bad chemicals. For example, when children drink hormones, they become prone to sleepiness and fits of ill temper.

You don't even want to know what happens to adults who drink hormones. Okay, they also become prone to sleepiness and fits of ill temper. But the experience is nastier for adults, as they have the weight of the years on their shoulders.