Unlike modern humans, who are used to unnatural and sterilized environments, pre-modern humans--the ones who have been existing on this planet for millennia-- have looked to and relied on the natural world (plants, animals, earth, etc.), not Walmart, to meet their survival needs as well as expand and discover life's potentials. Wasting anything from an animal that had been hunted was not in their vocabulary--again, a big difference from modern human "values". It couldn't have been too difficult to figure out what was useful from an animal carcass.
My wife also found this, but only a couple of days ago. I highly doubt that beavers are used for vanilla flavor, because chemical engineers have long been able to produce complex aromatic compounds to emulate the taste and/or the smell of just about anything. Such chemicals are cheap and extremely powerful.
Unlike modern humans, who are used to unnatural and sterilized environments, pre-modern humans--the ones who have been existing on this planet for millennia-- have looked to and relied on the natural world (plants, animals, earth, etc.), not Walmart, to meet their survival needs as well as expand and discover life's potentials. Wasting anything from an animal that had been hunted was not in their vocabulary--again, a big difference from modern human "values". It couldn't have been too difficult to figure out what was useful from an animal carcass.
My wife also found this, but only a couple of days ago. I highly doubt that beavers are used for vanilla flavor, because chemical engineers have long been able to produce complex aromatic compounds to emulate the taste and/or the smell of just about anything. Such chemicals are cheap and extremely powerful.
You seriously need to catch up.