Savor, a California-based startup backed by Bill Gates, has developed a technology that turns carbon into cooking fats, oils, and other food products. They’ve now claimed to have created a dairy-free butter alternative—and are working on alternatives to ice-cream, cheese, and milk—through a thermochemical process that builds fat molecules, creating chains of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen.
So what?
The process doesn’t release any greenhouse gases, uses no farmland, and requires less than a thousandth of the water that traditional agriculture does to create dairy products.
Dairy and meat agricultural farming accounts for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, so shifting to dairy-free alternatives could make a significant dent in reducing our carbon footprint.
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