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Interestingly, castoreum can also be found in popular perfumes: Shalimar and Chanel. That stuff really gets around…

Actually I find it far out more than gross. And after reading lately about some of the stuff food companies put into food and do to food, I do believe there is absolutely nothing that gang wouldn’t do for profits.

Thanks for including this list. I think it should be pointed out that castoreum will only be present in these foods IF the manufacturer allows it, by buying a flavoring for that food that includes castoreum. If, for instance, the manufacturers of vanilla ice cream only want to use vanilla beans (which are extremely expensive) to flavor their ice cream, then the flavorings they buy will NOT include castoreum. If on the other hand, ice cream manufacturers want to save money and not use vanilla beans, then they’ll buy a cheaper flavoring that might include castoreum. Again, the problem is we’ll never know (unless label requirements change) because castoreum is always listed on labels as “Natural Flavoring.”

COMPARED TO THE CHEMICAL CRAP THEY ADD TO PRESERVE FOOD,WHO REALLY CARES.AT LEAST ITS NOT TOXIC.

John wrote: “It’s amazing how gullible people are these days. It’s even more amazing that people are so desperate for attention that they will fabricate stories like this. Beaver anal glands, suuuuuuuure, ok. That’s equal parts immature and creative (in an extremely immature way), like something a fifth-grade child would make up to gross out their friends. Even if it was true, has anyone died or even become ill because of it? Can your simple mind even fathom how minuscule 93.69 parts per million is? And that’s the maximum amount of everything on the list!”

Clearly John works for the food industry. As for his logic – I’ve seen beaver gland excretions clearly labeled on homeopathic remedies, so yes, they are used, it’s not a myth. Furthermore, if we don’t even know that the extract is in foods (because that info is kept from us) how could we possibly know if that’s the ingredient that makes us sick? Lastly,even if the amount is small, we have the right to know what is in our food and the food we give our children. So nice try though John! You made your best attempt to belittle the consumer into silence. You earned yourself a beaver ass soda

That’s awful that companies wont tell us the truth. We have a right to know and still many people would eat it anyway.
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Beaver anal glands? I’d like to know where ALL these beavers are? Are there beaver farms we do not know about? For the amount of candy, gum and other things these people are claiming this stuff is in, there must be an enormous amount of beavers suppling it. Where are they?

@WW:

Excellent questions. And they gave me a good laugh imagining beaver farms plunked all over the USA. In fact even in the wild I can’t imagine there are tons of beavers hanging around these days.

Even though there appears to be castoreum flavoring in some products these days, we unfortunately have no idea exactly which products thanks to the stuff being hidden under the “natural flavor” category. And remember beaver anal glands (when used) make up a very tiny percent of the finished product.

So with no transparency from specific food manufacturers about where the stuff is or isn’t present, there can’t be any answers to all our questions about it.

Thanks for your comments.

It’s funny, I’m not so concerned about the extract being in my food because I use animal products and eat meat, so I’d be a hypocrite to be against it. But I strongly support transparency – especially regarding the foods we choose to eat or feed our families. I get really tired of industry bullies who make it their mandate to keep that information from us and convince us that all negative information about them is a conspiracy theory. Bottom line, there is nothing more intimate than the food we put in our mouths and that of our children. We have a right to know exactly what it is. We must find a way to know and educate each other. And above all, we must get back in touch with our instincts and trust them when things don’t quite seem right. Not knowing what is in our food does not feel right to me. Anyone who supports not knowing obviously has something to gain from hiding that information.

LMAO. Raccoons….love it.

In addition to its’ role in GMOs, Monsanto is ALSO the owner of an open pit mine in Idaho that produces phosphate for its weedkillers. More than half of the 31 phosphate mine sites in that area, including Monsanto, are contaminated Superfund sites. Monsanto and the other mines have polluted over 151 miles of streams that are now producing two-headed trout.
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Yah, I meant organic

Their offenses go way beyond three! They have illegally sued generational seed cleaners out of business, caused a rash of farmer suicides in India due to the failure of their GM cotton seeds, and basically have contaminated the entire food supply. And president Obama has allowed them into his government. Such an injustice There is a petition for that too:
http://signon.org/sign/tell-obama-to-cease-fda.fb5?source=s.fb.ty&r_by=4138426

Very succinctly put.

4,562,422 glands, give or take a gland or two.

Depends. If we’re talking average every day beavers, it’s two glands per beaver. If however we’re talking oddball beavers, the sky’s the limit. Could be glands galore!

Thanks for the clarification. I don’t remember scent sacs being mentioned in my research. But I do remember whatever it was, it was pretty whiffy stuff. And it has to be admitted, using the term “anal glands” in reference to food brings people to a lot sharper attention then the more innocuous sounding scent sacs.

Absolutely agree the big point is that castorium is allowed to be listed under the homey sounding “natural flavoring.”

Thanks very much for your comments.

Here’s what Wiki-Answers had to say about taurine – http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_taurine_contain_bull_sperm:

“Taurine, or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, is an organic acid. It is also a major constituent of bile and can be found in the lower intestine and, in small amounts, in the tissues of many animals, including humans. Taurine is named after the Latin Taurus, which means bull or ox, as it was first isolated from ox bile in 1827 by German scientists Friedrich Tiedemann and Leopold Gmelin.

Bull sperm is made up of different substances, including the acid Taurine.

Taurine that we find in food and drink products today is not extracted from any part of animals… Instead, it is artificially made in laboratories.

Thanks for your comment…