Bill Gates wants you to eat protein first From bugsNow he wants you to eat butter out of the air.
The billionaire Microsoft founder is backing a California startup that makes an animal-free “butter” alternative from carbon dioxide in a bid to help fight climate change.
Mr. Gates — The Internet is buzzing When it funded an insect-based food technology company last year, it said the company, called Savor, had perfected the chemical process to mass-produce dairy-free butter.
“The idea of switching to lab-made fats and oils may seem strange at first, but its potential to significantly reduce our carbon footprint is enormous. By leveraging proven technologies and processes, we can move one step closer to achieving our climate goals.” Gates wrote in a blog post:.
He said the culinary creation is not just a passing fad.
“The process produces zero greenhouse gas emissions, uses no land, and uses 1000 times less water than traditional agriculture. And most importantly, because it’s chemically real, it tastes really good,” Gates writes.
Foods produced from livestock are the world’s leading source of greenhouse gases that cause global warming, but butter substitutes have a carbon footprint three times lower than those produced from cows. According to The Guardian:.
The spreadable alternative is made through a thermochemical process that builds fat molecules by creating chains of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen.
According to the company, its cow-free recipes deliver an authentic taste that will make butter lovers go wild.
Sabre is also testing non-dairy alternatives to ice cream, cheese and milk, a company representative told the outlet.
“In the past, we’ve done informal tastings with a few dozen people,” CEO Kathleen Alexander said. “Going forward, we hope to do more formal tastings as part of our commercialization and scale-up efforts.”
Alexander doesn’t expect the butter sandwich to hit store shelves until at least 2025.
In February 2023, a Reddit thread erroneously reported that Gates was encouraging people to eat crickets “to stay healthy.”
However, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funding All Things Bugs The company develops insect-based technologies for food, agriculture and medicine to combat malnutrition.
Gates says he wants to help solve climate change by “developing transformative breakthroughs to provide cheap, clean energy” and funding environmentally friendly businesses.
