This Bill Gates-backed startup is making butter out of thin air: ‘without animal suffering’

A California-based startup backed by Bill Gates says that its butter, made out of carbon, tastes as good as the real thing. The process eliminates the need for the animals and makes butter without animals, farmland, fertilizers, hormones, or antibiotics, the startup claims. “That’s how we get rich, delightful ingredients without animal suffering, palm plantations, or dangerous chemicals. The founder of Microsoft explained that Savor’s process of creating butter by taking carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water does not release any greenhouse gases, uses no farmland and only utilises a miniscule fraction of the water used in traditional agriculture.