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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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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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[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure why people are so puritanical about this. I think Beyond Burgers and Soylent are great.

[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago
[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Soylent very much had that in mind when naming their product. It's meant to serve the same purpose as the titular substance: a wholly complete food source. Also constantly referencing Soylent Green to denigrate Soylent was precisely what I was referring to lol

[-] bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yea maybe it wasn't a good idea to name their product after something literally made from people. They opened themselves up it

[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah but you referenced Soylent when the original comment was about Soylent Green (which, as you tacitly acknowledge, came first) so you kind of got the cause and effect backwards

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Had a Beyond burger once. Once. I can't put it words what I didn't like, but it was revolting.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I like Beyond Burger more than hamburger but not more than black bean burgers or ground pork. I just dislike ground beef though. That Beyond Burger is made from isolated pea protein, flavoring and wishes. It does have a distinct flavor, and is a highly processed food.

[-] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I didnt care about the taste, but woooweee, the farts that it made were thunderous!

I think those burgers are made of compressed farts.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Enjoy your heavily processed food full of saturated fat and more than 4x the sodium of beef burgers.
And a touch of GMO goodness with your soylent.

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Brother do you know what a GMO is?

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Do you know what obvious sarcasm is?

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Do you? Because you sound like some of the arguments I've heard from conservatives/cowbrains when I've talked about not eating meat and trying substitutes.

Like it would take very little effort to make this sound like part of an Alex Jones rant, talk about the nutrition aspect and transition into a lazy ad pivot and you're basically there.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

TF are you going on about conservatives, Alex Jones and whatever?
That's some rambling associated with inhabitants of the US banana republic and their fanatic fixation on making everything about them and their 2 sides of the Uniparty.
"Someone in the world doesn't like GMO's, that's also side B's stance and automatically bad!"
"What, Side B says the sun comes up in the east? If they say it it must be in the west!"

Simplistic ridiculous campist thinking.
Really I hope both of your camps burn that joke of a country to the ground and disappear.
Bye now

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Not that obvious, it seems

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I assumed "GMO goodness" was more than low bar enough.
How on earth is he going to process the scientific explanation in the article?

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