Bill Gates is investing in this lab-grown butter that apparently tastes just like the real thing

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

This stuff is being produced by Savor in the Chicago suburbs. The butter uses no animals, no plants, and no oils.

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.

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).

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.

Fine, then he can eat it.

Yup -—do it on live TV. Melt some of that goodness all over a plate of bugs and dig in, dipshit. Can’t stand that he is this “all for you, but none for me”. You think he doesn’t eat premium grade butter?

“, 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”

Facts you can take this to the bank. All of those you listed are not even butter based right now. They are cottonseed based or palm oil based. More palm oil now that partially hydrogenated oils were banned for trans fats. Cotton is the most heavily sprayed plant for pesticides and cottonseed oil is solvent extraction with hexane a known carcinogen. Nothing Gates could make is worse than what is already at waffle house or AMC popcorn.

From the technical side of this they came up with a way to make fatty acids with the same chemical chains and alpha bonds to what the main fatty acids in butter are. Chemically they would be identical not even a mass spectrometry machine could tell the difference. The ratios could be tweaked since the catalysts make individual components and they are blended. Upping the omega 3s vs 6 would be a good thing.

You can be sure that the market will set the uptake of these kinds of products of they are cheaper than solvent extraction of seed oils they will take the place of those in commercial and industrial food settings like it or not.

How many joe six pack is going to ask to see the tub of absolute garbage fat that they are about to guzzle off the griddle at waffle house before eating what already is gut rot. Zero is the answer. Same for the person who just asked for extra liquid “butter” on their 3 gallon tub of popcorn before they waddle into the movie with a half gallon of sugary drink in the other sausage fingered hand. Yup zero.

“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...........”

This is not the hill to stand one...do you have any idea how much blood, pus and other fluids are allowed to be one milk. Go ahead and look up the amounts of both allowed per millimeter of dairy product. It will shock you what’s not allowed but unavoidably in milk from a cow who defecates down its backsides standing in the milking stalls and just walking around. Whats directly under a cow backsides its udders. Anyone who has been around cattle for any real length of time knows this. You hope the robot that is cleaning the udders it automatically attaches the suction cups gets all the funk off. Added bonus is the machine unlike a human doesn’t reject udders with sores, abrasions or lesions.

Drink up, at least be truthful with yourself. We get it you don’t like Gates but anything from a machine that can be analytically cleaned and absolutely chemically or thermally sterilized is going to be light years ahead in cleanliness vs a cow.

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