"Product not tested on animals".
How about "Product comes from animal's behind"?
That yummy vanilla flavored candy or vanilla scent you are eating or smelling just may have came from the butt of a beaver. It's been going on for a long time, you just weren't aware of it until now. Natural ingredients? Yeah, beaver excretions.
Castoreum comes from a beaver's castor sacs, located between the pelvis and base of the tail. Due to its proximity to the anal glands, the slimy brown substance is often mixed with gland secretions and urine.
"I lift up the animal's tail," Joanne Crawford, a wildlife ecologist at Southern Illinois University told National Geographic. "I’m like, 'Get down there, and stick your nose near its bum.'"
"People think I'm nuts," she added. "I tell them, 'Oh, but it's beavers; it smells really good.'"
Beavers use the brown slime, often compared to a thinner version of molasses, to mark their territory. The musky, vanilla scent is attributed to a beaver's diet of bark and leaves.
Read more: Fox News
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