As a wildlife damage specialist for the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, I’ve accepted the fact that odd odors are just part of the job. From handling skunks to hard working interns that haven’t ...

A New Hampshire distillery is touting its new bourbon as being partly flavored using the secretion from a beaver's castor sacs and that its ingredients are "generally recognized as safe" by the FDA.

It's a myth that artificial vanilla flavoring comes from castoreum extracted from beaver castor sacs. Flavor chemists explain that artificial vanilla flavor is made from synthetic vanillin. Vanillin ...

Are there beaver secretions in your vanilla ice cream? News articles or food influencers on social media might have you believe that castoreum, a yellow, syrupy substance from the castor sacs near a ...

If you’re looking for vanilla at the grocery store, you’ll usually find two different options. Pure vanilla extract, the more expensive option made from real vanilla beans, and imitation vanilla or ...

One of the most misguided, counterproductive, and inhumane forms of wildlife management in the United States is the annual mass killing of beavers (Castor canadensis). Each year, tens of thousands of ...