Globalist billionaire Bill Gates has invested millions of dollars in a new dietary fat made from what he describes as “thin air”, boasting that the synthetic butter can be made without traditional farming methods including livestock and crops.
However Gates-funded start-up behind “synthetic butter” are refusing to release nutritional information about the new product, raising the alarm among those who do not believe the self-styled “philanthropist” is operating with humanity’s best interests at heart.
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While butter is a densely nutritious and natural product that has sustained humanity for centuries, Gates’ new “synthetic butter” is made from carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxidized paraffin wax and represents Gates’ latest effort to phase out farming from the food production process.
According to New Scientist, Gates-funded startup Savor has created “synthetic butter” made from carbon, utilizing a thermochemical system closer to fossil fuel processing than food production. “There is no biology involved in our specific process,” says Kathleen Alexander from the company.
In a Substack article, Alexander wrote: “The fats we make at Savor can be produced from fossil fuels like natural gas or from captured CO2 and green hydrogen … We could not be more excited to bring these new fats to the world.”
“The Californian startup has gone to the basics of chemistry to build its product. According to its website, like any molecule, fat also has a fixed chemical formula. It uses carbon dioxide as a starting point to build fat molecules using heat and hydrogen,” Interesting Engineering explained without giving further details, which is not surprising as Savor’s website doesn’t seem to have any.
The Expose report: We were able to find some details about their process in a presentation given at the Good Food Institute conference held in September 2023. In a session titled ‘Commercial innovation of alternative fat ingredients’, Savor’s Director of Business Development Chiara Cecchini presented the diagram below to show the process they use to make the synthetic fats that they want us to eat.
Notice the input begins with paraffin wax and CO2.
Cecchini explained: “We start from an input which is basically CO2 and green hydrogen in the form of paraffin and then we take those paraffin waxes and we basically oxidize them.”
Interesting Engineering continued:
Savor is confident that its technology can be used to make butter and multiple other animal-derived fats, such as milk and cheese. The company also plans to use this approach to make ice cream and edible oils.
Another highlight of this tech is that it is highly scalable and could rapidly be deployed to replace animal-derived fats. The only hurdle would be convincing people to adopt a product made using revolutionary tech into their daily lives.
This is where Gates is hopeful he can make a difference. “The idea of switching to lab-made fats and oils may seem strange at first,” Gates wrote in a blog post earlier this year. “But their potential to significantly reduce our carbon footprint is immense. By harnessing proven technologies and processes, we get one step closer to achieving our climate goals.“
What Are the Health Impacts?
Savor’s sole focus is on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, animal suffering and environmental impact. We weren’t able to find the nutritional values contained in their products nor an assessment of their health impacts.
In his blog, Gates acknowledges that animal fats are nutritious and in the same sentence attempts to downplay their value by likening them to a craving or a “sugar kick”:
Our plan can’t be to simply hope that people give up foods they crave. After all, humans are wired to want animal fats for a reason – because they’re the most nutrient-rich and calorie-dense macronutrient – in the same way we’re wired to crave sugar for an instant energy kick. Greasy – and good for the planet, Gates Notes, 13 February 2024
For the rest of his blog, Gates completely ignores the nutritional value of natural fats and bangs on about “climate change.”
All we’ve been told is that Savor’s lab-made fats contain carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. However, in Alexander’s Substack article, she made a note under an image of Savor’s fake butter: “Butter made from fossil fuels. I swear it tastes really good. The colour is from beta carotene that we add because we have found that people like to see yellow-ish butter; the synthetic fats themselves are white.”
Beta carotene is a plant pigment that gives red, orange and yellow vegetables their vibrant colour. It is considered a provitamin A carotenoid, meaning that the body can convert it into vitamin A (retinol). Beta carotene has antioxidant properties. So, although it’s not Savor’s intention, there is at least one ingredient with nutritional value in their lab-made concoction to smear on bread, although how much beta carotene and whether it is enough to be of benefit is not known.
No other mention has been made of any nutrients that are added in Savor’s process or whether any unwanted chemicals, compounds or contaminants are in the finished products.
