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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.
Once we kill the Earth, this will be how food is manufactured. I am now going to finish my box of Soylent Green.
I’m not sure why people are so puritanical about this. I think Beyond Burgers and Soylent are great.
In case you don’t know, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
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
Yea maybe it wasn’t a good idea to name their product after something literally made from people. They opened themselves up it
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
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
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…
Had a Beyond burger once. Once. I can’t put it words what I didn’t like, but it was revolting.
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.
I didnt care about the taste, but woooweee, the farts that it made were thunderous!
I think those burgers are made of compressed farts.
Funny because for me, the Beyond burger taste better than many joint patties, but the price is prohibitively expensive, so I don’t buy them that often (or eat burgers that much for that matter)
Shout out to the kirkland brand as well, damn good patties.
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.
Brother do you know what a GMO is?
Do you know what obvious sarcasm is?
Not that obvious, it seems
I assumed “GMO goodness” was more than low bar enough.
How on earth is he going to process the scientific explanation in the article?
sukhmel probably assumed you meant that you were parodying someone who hates artificial foods and GMOs and did not actually hate them yourself
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.
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
I’m not sure if that’s a bad thing. 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.
What is wrong with entertainment, though? Taste is one of our senses, like hearing or seeing, having food that tastes good is not inefficient , it’s lovely - I think having a good palate and appreciation for lots of flavors is a positive good in a life.
The animals we create are morally entitled to the exact same unconditional love and protection as our own children. The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence. Need additional reasons why sensory enjoyment must not be the primary criteria?
Why are you conflating animal foods and pleasure in eating? My vegan kid is a foodie, a good cook and a person who gets a lot of sensory enjoyment out of the texture and flavors of food. It’s important to her.
I don’t think drmoose would consider non–animal-based food entertainment as inefficient as e.g. butter
That’s a very shallow take. Food taste good thus must be good? You do not dare to explore this any deeper?
? 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.
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.
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.
I think you genuinely have a reading comprehension disability.
and you reply with “but food tastes good” — duuuuuh but why would that matter to anything? like seriously dude, spend some time with yourself.
Space Butter
This, but unironically.
There’s plenty of objects out there made of CHONPS.
If we don’t kill ourselves first, at some point we’ll eat the Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud.
“Soylent Green is people!”
Bring me the corpse starch