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Bill Gates is investing in this lab-grown butter that apparently tastes just like the real thing
Not The Bee ^ | August 11, 2025 | Wolfgang Ramsay

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.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Gardening; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: billgates; butter; frankenfood; labbutter
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To: Red Badger
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.

There's fat in CO2 and H2? I knew it! You can gain weight just by breathing and drinking water.

41 posted on 08/11/2025 9:41:47 AM PDT by Ranxerox
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To: All

He can eat it


42 posted on 08/11/2025 9:43:13 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: escapefromboston

He can stick it.


43 posted on 08/11/2025 9:47:26 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Red Badger

Gates is also developing green dildos to make them taste like the real thing. So far he claims they only taste like fish.


44 posted on 08/11/2025 9:50:40 AM PDT by waredbird (Rrect. )
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To: metmom

Precisely my point. There is actually a more significant pre-historic indicator involving the same vegetative/microbial principles, but the source of that record is not germane to the current discussion.


45 posted on 08/11/2025 10:00:07 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Red Badger
I can't believe no one has posted something like this


46 posted on 08/11/2025 10:06:00 AM PDT by algore
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To: Red Badger

Soylent Green.


47 posted on 08/11/2025 10:06:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Red Badger

Isn’t this and synthetic meat made from immortal cell lines from a cancer taken from Henrietta Lacks abnormal cervical cancer?


48 posted on 08/11/2025 10:06:33 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: Red Badger

No! Just NO!


49 posted on 08/11/2025 10:22:45 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Red Badger

Could they use it for axel greese? Or Chassis lube?


50 posted on 08/11/2025 10:26:51 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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Previously:

Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates

51 posted on 08/11/2025 10:31:25 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Red Badger

Go to hell, Gates.


52 posted on 08/11/2025 10:42:29 AM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: metmom

It may taste like butter, but just knowing it isn’t & knowing the ingredients suggests it may not be safe for consumption.


53 posted on 08/11/2025 10:46:04 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Red Badger

What’s wrong with the butter we have?


54 posted on 08/11/2025 10:50:01 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Tom Tetroxide

It comes from a cow..................


55 posted on 08/11/2025 10:50:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Jim Robinson

I’d much rather eat real butter from a cow that from a machine that you don’t know the last time it was cleaned...........


56 posted on 08/11/2025 10:53:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Not this time. It’s a totally mechanical process....

https://www.savor.it/


57 posted on 08/11/2025 10:58:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Not this time. It’s a totally mechanical process....

https://www.savor.it/


58 posted on 08/11/2025 10:58:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I have an idea for a great place to put a carbon footprint!


59 posted on 08/11/2025 11:00:05 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Trumpet 1

Or other ‘lube’?......................


60 posted on 08/11/2025 11:00:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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