What is castoreum?

I really don't know what to say about this. I'm gobsmacked that this goes on.

what ice cream would you like? some beavercastorsac and chocolate please.lol

I knew the vanilla smell came from an animal, but not like this... time to find a new favorite ice cream taste.... vegans will go nuts if they find this out haha

i don't use casyoreum

Very strange to say the least!!! Who and why???

toothless beachrat, exactly! and why did he/she think about such weird things?

I wonder how/who was the founder of this process...

I thought vanillin was a single chemical, produced artificially and existing naturally in Vanilla.