Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

I don't see a thread for 9-1-1 or shoot me now ... So all I can do is laugh right? Ugh. So gross if I think too long about this.



"Have you ever tried eating “beaver butt?” If you think you haven’t, then think again.

Millions of people around the world are now consuming or, at least, have consumed “beaver butt” without knowing what it is or that they’ve eaten it.

Beaver butt, also called “castoreum,” is emitted from the castor sacs within the beaver’s anus. The animals use this slimy brown substance to mark its territory; us humans, however, now use it as an additive usually labeled “natural flavoring” — vanilla, strawberry and raspberry are the most common flavors.

Contrary to what most might imagine, castoreum, after being processed, actually emits a pleasant scent, thereby making it a perfect candidate for food products. Castoreum, in fact, has such a nice smell that perfume manufacturers have actually been using it for decades to make a variety of fragrances. These anal secretions are said to contain around 24 different molecules, many of which act as natural pheromones."

So this means someone is squeezing beaver ass for a living. And someone is a flavour tester and then there is us, the ass consumers.

I'm just wondering what is next. And of course I can't post it on a 4H forum.

This should be posted in the "too much information" category............ eeeewwwww.

Knew they used it in perfume, but "natural flavouring"??

Ha ha.....castoreum is also a by product of the trapping industry...but you may be relieved to know sandy that snopes confirms that the use of castoreum in foods is mainly false with only 292 pounds of the stuff produced every year-most of which is put into perfumes...and apparently none of the five big vanilla manufacturers use it.

I'm so happy I don't wear Purfume and maybe I hate it so much because it smells like a beavers ass when it is worn. Hahahahahaa! Actually Purfume does me in.

Actually I don't take any comfort in that. I don't believe for one second that we truly know and are privy to the ingredients in 'natural flavours'. It's a term allowed by the CFIA, FDA to group a whole load of unnatural, usually toxic and displeasing, ingredients under one name/category.

Ugh I can't go on that rant today. I'm pregnant with 10 eggs and I need to reserve my energy and I have a headache from the stress. LOL.

All the more reason to grow your own.....and process your own....lol.

I would tell you to stop worrying but i think i have checked my incubator 19 times already today. Soon to be 20....

Stress /worry is the biggest killer & reason for sickness in the animal kingdom including humanoids and boy do some folks go out of their way to have / make more . Chickens eat /sort thru there's & others crap & we eat the chicken & it's eggs . Seems to me eggs from a factory farm up on wire in cages would be safer . JMO Go figure he said tongue in cheek . Thanks for my Morn smile . Luck , have a great worry free day folks looks like a great one .

Yep a little "Beaver Butt" ruined many a good man . Hahee , couldn't resist. Luck

ross wrote:QR_BBPOST Yep a little "Beaver Butt" ruined many a good man . Hahee , couldn't resist. Luck

There goes our 4H rating.

Couldn't resist :)

Hahaha .. Me thinks the title did that already haheeee