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A History of Flavoring Food with Castoreum (vice.com)
61 points by tlrobinson on Dec 28, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



People like Food Babe are this era’s snake oil salesmen. As a scientist, I’m constantly appalled at the amount of sheer ignorance and provably wrong facts that are out there concerning food and chemistry and believed by nearly everyone in those food and health circles.


Britain is tentatively reintroducing beavers after wiping out the last ones in the 16 century. They might be handy for controlling rain run off - trials are on going. I'm sure it wont be long before someone decides to lick an arse by accident or something ...




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