Bill Gates Backed Company Releases Carbon Butter

I’ll pass on this.

A company backed by Bill Gates is making butter made from carbon.

Food tech company Savor, which has received backing from Bill Gates, has created butter without using any animals, plants, or oils but instead using carbon.

Here’s a sneak peek:

A Bill Gates backed company is now producing butter with no animals, no plants, and no oils — it’s made from carbon.

The company is working with restaurants, bakeries, and food suppliers to incorporate their carbon-made butter.

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CBS provided more details on Savor’s new product:

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.

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“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.

Bill Gates has a history of backing bizarre food products.

One of his biggest investments in the food industry was Impossible, a company that produces plant-based meat.

Euro News provided more details on what Gate’s believes is the future of environmentally “safe” food:

The climate impact of meat is hidden, Bill Gates has warned – but the billionaire believes that plant-based meat is the ‘future’.

Fertiliser and cows are a hidden cause of climate change, Bill Gates has claimed – but plant-based meat is “the future.”

Most people still don’t know how agriculture contributes to climate change, the billionaire claims – specifically the methane emissions from livestock and fertilisers.

“Of all the climate areas, the one that people are probably least aware of is all the fertiliser and cows, and that’s a challenge,” Gates recently said on the latest episode of his podcast, “Unconfuse Me.”

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The topic came up because Gates was in conversation with musician and director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, who, like Gates, also happens to be an early investor in several plant-based food startups, such as Impossible,