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Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates (www.cbsnews.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34272214

A California-based biotechnology startup has officially launched the world's first commercially available butter made entirely from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen, eliminating the need for traditional agriculture or animal farming. Savor, backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates through his Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, announced the commercial release of its animal- and plant-free butter after three years of development.

The revolutionary product uses a proprietary thermochemical process that transforms carbon dioxide captured from the air, hydrogen from water, and methane into fat molecules chemically identical to those found in dairy butter. According to the company, the process creates fatty acids by heating these gases under controlled temperature and pressure conditions, then combining them with glycerol to form triglycerides.

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[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thank goodness we have the assurances of a billionaire oligarch to help steer humanity in the right dietary direction.

[–] teuniac_@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Global warming and ecological crises make shifting diets away from animal products a pretty good idea.

Whether it's antibiotics resistance, deforestation, or greenhouse gas emissions, humanity is paying a very high price for animal agriculture at the current scale.

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world -4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Problems come up: "BILLIONAIRES SHOULD DO MORE!" Billionaires do more: "WE CANT TRUST BILLIONAIRES!!"

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The conclusion ought to be that billionaires shouldn't exist. Even if they donate most of their wealth, they will still donate in ways that aren't necessarily solving real problems.

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

On that we agree

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 2 points 20 hours ago

Ruminants creating greenhouse gasses is a problem that can solve itself by returning to huge fucking pastures and cooperative farming.

Instead, we're getting synthetic food. We're a decade removed from human grade kibble at this point.

Here again, capitalism is the problem. A capitalist offering capitalism solutions to problems created by capitalism isn't appealing.