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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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To: metmom

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?


81 posted on 08/11/2025 5:58:21 PM PDT by duckbutt (I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery - T. Jefferson)
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To: duckbutt

He probably only eats premium, grass fed only, organic butter, handmade by the peons he’s trying to eliminate.


82 posted on 08/11/2025 6:05:21 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“, 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.


83 posted on 08/11/2025 11:05:13 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: Red Badger

“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.


84 posted on 08/11/2025 11:14:16 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: GenXPolymath

Geez I wonder how civilization has survived eating butter all these years!


85 posted on 08/11/2025 11:19:20 PM PDT by antceecee ( )
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To: GenXPolymath

My mother worked in a dairy for years...................


86 posted on 08/12/2025 5:37:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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