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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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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In case you don't know, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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 7 points 2 days 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 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

well he's not arguing against eating people, he's arguing against a distate for the concept of food replacements. not every post-apocalyptic replacement has to be made from people either

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't think the person at the beginning of the thread was saying all food would be made from people. I think they were referencing a fictional product for irony and that the person who responded didn't catch, and the responding person said what they said to follow up and anyone with the will to read can interpret for themselves...