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.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 hours ago

    That’s a very shallow take. Food taste good thus must be good? You do not dare to explore this any deeper?

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      5 hours ago

      ? I grow vegetables and fruit, make healthy meals, mostly homemade. Sourdough bread, fermented drinks with odds and ends to divert waste. Why do people think good food doesn’t taste good? Good food tastes great.

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        4 hours ago

        No one’s argueing that food doesn’t taste good but there’s more to food than just taste and kinda sad that you don’t see it.

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          3 hours ago

          I am so confused. Why do you think I said taste is the only thing that matters about food? I did not say that. I said that it does matter, and should not be devalued, would never argue that it’s the only thing that matters, and never said that.

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            35 minutes ago

            I think you genuinely have a reading comprehension disability.

            Current food sector is rotten to the core. For most, food is entertainment that is incredibly inefficient at what it does and causes incredible ethical harms that we choose to conciously ignore.

            and you reply with “but food tastes good” ­— duuuuuh but why would that matter to anything? like seriously dude, spend some time with yourself.