> Posted on 08/11/2025 9:13:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
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You would have never guessed that Bill Gates was backing this new carbon-based butter, would you?
Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates A company in Batavia, Illinois is making butter in a way you've never seen before. No animals, no plants, no oils; this butter is made from carbon. WWW.CBSNEWS.COM
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/butter-carbon-bill-gates-batavia-illinois/
This stuff is being produced by Savor in the Chicago suburbs. The butter uses no animals, no plants, and no oils.
I simply cannot fathom the idea, so I'll quote Bill Gates' blog:
They ultimately developed a process that involves taking carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heating them up, and oxidizing them to trigger the separation of fatty acids and then the formulation of fat. The result is real fat molecules like the ones we get from milk, cheese, beef, and vegetable oils.
Mix that fat with water and lecithin, and Voila, you've got butter. And it apparently tastes just like the real thing.
So we've now got lab-made butter backed by Bill Gates coming out of Chicago.
Essentially, this is "green" butter. No greenhouse gasses, no farmland, no animals -- just made in an industrial park in Chicago (though Savor is based in San Jose, California).
Science fiction, but real.
Here's more from Gates' 2024 blog post:
The idea of switching to lab-made fats and oils may seem strange at first. But their potential to significantly reduce our carbon footprint is immense. By harnessing proven technologies and processes, we get one step closer to achieving our climate goals.
Bill Gates loves this carbon-made butter, and Savor says it will be on shelves by 2027.
Gates didn’t get the “do no evil” memo.
It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.................
Cows can be very good for the environment, particularly grasslands upon which soils 70% of agriculture depends.
Who would trust eating this crap produced by a man that seeks to depopulate. It’s probably riddled with mRNA and other toxic ingredients.
How is it delivered?
Teleportation, like on Star Trek?...............
Needs to be chemically broken down by a reputable independent laboratory......there’s no telling what that sh!t has in it.
Made out of the very stuff that liberals have been telling us for the last 30 years has been killing the earth.
Oh, if it’s cheap enough, you’ll see it on movie theater popcorn, and Waffle House grills, and anywhere else that greasy, vaguely butter-like stuff is good enough.
Watch for it in restaurants, hospitals, and public school lunches.
I loved reading the Heechee saga.
When I read this article yesterday at the site, they had a comments section. I don’t see one today, most comments were probably like the one I left. “If Bill Gates supports it, I won’t touch it.”
Look what millions of buffaloes over thousands of years did for the Great Plains.
And there were FAR more buffalo and other ruminants for all that time than there are cows now.
This will be the Windows Vista of butter. My doctors are desperately trying to get me to cut back on real butter, but I would never try this.
It’s probably got a spike protein in it
IF this stuff is chemically the exact same as real butter, wouldn’t it kill you just the same?..............
What kind of carbon footprint dose this carbon butter have?
Fatty acids are long chain molecules, and not just CO2 and hydrogen. It seems a product only a vegan could love.
Just no
My fear is that it’s got NOTHING much in it.
“...taking carbon dioxide from the air...”
It’s got what PLANTS CRAVE!.................
Is it any different from margarine or Mazola? I was raised on these two. When Adult I went to real BUTTER.
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