Thanks for sharing this discrepancy!
Indeed, the "beaver as relevant tool as major driver" does actually not exist in schools in EU mainland; the chance is higher you hear about the porks brought by first European-immigrants that they used for food production because of their fast reproduction numbers.
(and porks are easy to deal with, they eat everything; Once I heard someone from crime enforcement saying: "the perfect murdery would be to feed the dead body to a herd of porks because they would even eat the teeth from the body")
In English, the creature is a pig or a hog, and the meat is pork.
We also have major feral pig problems in parts of the US.
I’ve found it interesting that cows become beef, sheep mutton, pigs pork, but goats, chicken, turkeys and fish keep their identities when they become food.
> After the Norman Conquest of England, nobles referred to the meat they ate in French, but the peasants who raised animals for meat referred to them in Anglo-Saxon. This is why modern English has words such as beef and pork for meat, but cow and pig for the animals it comes from
I guess fish/chicken were for peasants at the time
The movie "Snatch"
https://youtu.be/_Yvmg4wcfzY?is=paeV1wjPaF2c6WZB
So, is it about Beaver or Pork then? :-D
Not that perfect. The canadian pig-farming serial killer was eventually caught.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton