Posted on 08/10/2025 9:20:58 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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.
The sustainability-focused approach has the blessing and backing of Bill Gates.
It looks, smells and tastes like the butter we all know, but it's made without the farmland, fertilizers or emissions tied to the typical process.
This unprecedented process is happening at the facilities of Savor in an industrial park in the suburbs west of Chicago.
"So you're using this gas right now to cook your food and we're proposing that we would like to first make your food with— with that gas," said Kathleen Alexander, co-founder and CEO of Savor.
The company's pioneering tech uses carbon and hydrogen to make sticks of butter that anyone would recognize.
"This is pretty novel, to be able to make food that looks and tastes and feels exactly like dairy butter, but with no agriculture whatsoever," said Jordan Beiden-Charles, food scientist for Savor.
And without a long ingredient list the average person can't pronounce.
"It's really just our fat, some water, a little bit of lecithin as an emulsifier, and some natural flavor and color," Beiden-Charles said.
This is how it works: Fats are made up of carbon and hydrogen chains. The goal is to replicate those chains without animals or plants. And they did it.
To put it in simple terms, Savor says they take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heat them up, oxidize them and get a final result that looks like candle wax but is in fact fat molecules like those in beef, cheese or vegetable oils.
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I seem to recall that the Germans did the same in WW2 making butter from coal.
I never take culinary advice from people who want me dead.
Isn’t that called margarine? And it is even worse for you than butter.
“Our Fat”... soylent green is people, and so is bill gates’ new butter!... now you know...
Olestra
If Bill Gates is for it, there’s something bad about it.
Of course Bill Gates would back it.
Anything to poison the unwashed and eliminate them or cause them to need medical care that he profits from.
“The sustainability-focused approach has the blessing and backing of Bill Gates.”
Emperor Bill has blessed it ... all fall down and worship.
Great point. Millions of bison over tens of thousands of years sure are going to do a great job of fertilizing the soil.
She is holding the fake butter that is yellow same as the real stuff
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“If you think it’s butter, but it’s not - it’s anthracite….”
When I decided that I’d use only butter it was because after reading the ingredient labels of margarine, I decided that my body knew what to do with butter since it was a real food.
And that goes for real maple syrup, too.
Thanks for that interesting history.
They will find that eating this stuff for 20 or 30 years causes all sorts of dire health problems.
It’s ironic that Gates, et al are so worried about feeding a growing human race just when global fertility and birth rates re in serious decline.
Butter isn’t bad for you; it contains lots of nutrients.
Bill Gates is a menace to humanity.
It's not just poop. It's grazing grasses to facilitate forbs with their microbial relationships. Grazing also forces cyclical root die-back which adds organic matter.
Animal disturbance is not only elemental to soil formation, it inhibits successional establishment of perennial cover to retain the region in grasslands. That too builds a deeper soil.
Over 70% of agricultural soils are former grasslands.
So, NO Sydney Sweeny endorsement?
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