Cow-Free Butter? Bill Gates-Backed Lab-Generated Product Slated for 2027
Savor is laughably being marketed as “carbon free butter”. However, butter is actually comprised of…hydrocarbons…with essential vitamins and minerals.
Butter is a key ingredient in many of the dishes and desserts we are enjoying over the holidays.
This Christmas season, Big Tech billionaire Bill Gates is backing a project that will inject more chemicals into our daily lives. This time, it is not vaccines.
He plans to offer us cow-free butter.
A company in Batavia, Illinois is making butter in a way you’ve never seen before. No animals, no plants, no oils; this butter is made from carbon.
The sustainability-focused approach has the blessing and backing of Bill Gates.
It looks, smells and tastes like the butter we all know, but it’s made without the farmland, fertilizers or emissions tied to the typical process.
This unprecedented process is happening at the facilities of Savor in an industrial park in the suburbs west of Chicago.
Bill Gates' lab-made butter is due to hit the shelves in 2027.
"It looks, smells, and tastes like the butter we're all familiar with, but without the farmland, fertilisers, or emissions."
Bill Gates: "The idea of switching to lab-made fats and oils may seem strange at first,… pic.twitter.com/1gmYI7eNuG
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) September 15, 2025
As someone who has an advanced degree in chemistry, I laughed out loud when I read it was “carbon-free butter. Butter is made out of hydrocarbons. It also includes essential vitamins and minerals as well.
The lipid fraction of butter mainly consists of triacylglycerols (98%) and small quantities of monoacylglycerols and diacylglycerols, glycolipids, ether lipids and free fatty acids. Phospholipids and sterols (see Fact sheet FAPC-196 Lipid Glossary) may also be present.
Over 66% of the fatty acids in butter are saturated (Table 2). One tablespoon of regular and whipped butter have about 0.4 grams and 0.3 grams of poly-unsaturated fatty acids, respectively. The %DV of cholesterol in regular and whipped butters is 10% and 7%, respectively.
Butter does not contain significant amount of trans fat, less than 0.50 grams in 1 tablespoon (see fact sheet FAPC 133) , but it contains substantial amounts of fat-soluble vitamins A and E and small amounts of calcium, phosphorus, vitamin K and D. Presence of carotene, vitamin A, and other fat-soluble pigments contribute to the color of butter.
So everyone is already ingesting delicious “bovine” carbon already.
Gates made some big promises related to the product.
Commenting on Savor’s work, Bill Gates wrote on his blog, “The process doesn’t release any greenhouse gases, and it uses no farmland and less than a thousandth of the water that traditional agriculture does. And most important, it tastes really good—like the real thing, because chemically it is.”
He added, “The big challenge is to drive down the price so that products like Savor’s become affordable to the masses—either the same cost as animal fats or less.”
Savor’s 25,000-square-foot pilot facility in Batavia, Illinois, called SavorWorks1, serves as the production center for the novel carbon-based butter.
The company’s CO2-source agnostic technology uses methane- and carbon dioxide-derived inputs from numerous origins to produce a wide range of fats, like palm oil, milkfat, and cocoa butter, with an ambition to tap into more fats in the future.
Given the response to this news, this butter is likely to go the way of “Beyond Meat”…which has seen its sales plunge as consumers want more natural foods free from laboratory manipulations.
Real butter and ghee will be just fine for me:) no fake stuff please 🙂
— Sandra Bloom (@sandrabloomB) July 21, 2024
And, as I have noted before, cows already conveniently convert carbon into a form that is readily digestible to humans. The Biogenic Cycle: It is real and it is spectacular.
He's bamboozling people again.
Meet the Biogenic Carbon Cycle.
The carbon cows consume is recycled over a period of 12 years…
That means the net yearly *addition* of carbon to the atmosphere is nearly negligible over time in terms of negative impact. Especially as carbon is a… pic.twitter.com/9oTtrCAgMd— Denan Strong (@DenanStrong) February 24, 2025
Cows are already part of environmental sustainability.
He’s absolutely right. Cows are part of environmental sustainability. Methane from cows is part of the natural carbon cycle that after 12 years breaks down into natural CO2 and water. Grass absorbs the CO2 by photosynthesis and the cycle starts again.pic.twitter.com/9du9ENJ3Wg
— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) July 15, 2023
Or, to put it more succinctly: Cows eating grass is the Earth.
Imagine thinking a cow eating grass is bad for the planet.
This is like saying that fish are bad for the ocean.
A cow eating grass IS the f**king planet pic.twitter.com/jNTZUGW7jS
— Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 (@AlpacaAurelius) July 16, 2024
I wish you a very Merry Christmas, with sugar plums and as much real butter-laden foods as you can eat.
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Comments
That is a hard no on the frankenbutter
Does anyone remember Olestra? It lasted about as long as it took to make it to the bathroom to avoid a fecal catastrophe.
You may experience “gas with oily discharge”…
Pass.
Olestra was a indigestible fat. Of course it acted as a laxative. It was basically like mineral oil.
It also prevented the absorption of fat soluble vitamins. And some idiot at the FDA said… Hey, sounds like a good idea!!
Bill needs to feed to his own family and company first. How about a year long trial.
What’s with their fascination with synthetic food? The human race figured out how to feed itself a *long* time ago.
The Gates’ think their bright ideas should be foisted on the rest of us simply because they’re unimaginably wealthy. They believe that just because they want to do something it means they should, but they can keep their hubris to themselves, thankyouverymuch.
BTW, Bill, Windows 11 sux.
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I can’t believe it’s not udder.
Let’s not go whey overboard with this.
Promise
So, basically, Margarine 2.0.
Margarine 1.0 was invented in France by Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès in 1869, during the Franco-Prussian wars. He invented it in response to a competitive challenge from the French government under Napoleon III, who was looking for a cheap and stable substitute for butter, and offered a big prize to anyone who could pull it off.
Mège-Mouriès won the big prize.
Pro-tip for Bill Gates: pack up all that 2.0 and march into Russia during the Winter. You’ll love it.
anything to get the hunger in the world to zero is good with me
the marketing should of course be transparent regarding all ingredients
Let them eat butter!
Hunger in the world is 99.9% political. People aren’t starving because there is a lack of food; they are starving because their leaders are making choices that lead to starvation.
And why would you imagine that inventing more factory food would lead to less hunger? The two things bear no relation to one another.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
You can try and replace the cow but note well that the cow transforms plants that humans cannot digest into delicious food. Displacing these calories from the farm to the factory will have economic consequences that sooper geniuses like Mr. Gates cannot possibly conceive of.
Take a seat, Bill. Your services are not required.
I would not buy this product even if it was cheaper than real butter.
I think most people feel the same way
People as crazy as Bill Gates will buy it…enthusiastically even.
Grass fed cows produce butter that has Vitamin K2, an important nutrient.
Just saying. But then Gates doesn’t give a ….
Cow free butter.
Isn’t that called margerine?
Years ago an occasional cow would fall into the butter during the manufacturing process. There were several lawsuits by customers who found cows in their butter. This lead to butter being carefully strained before it is packaged and as a result butter has been cow free for a number of years.
Bill Gates needs to go away, far away.
Lonely billionaire with nothing else to do
Yeah, his friend’s pedo-island is shut down and his wife divorced him.
The only thing creepier than him trying to dictate global health policy is him trying to dictate global food policy.
The sick f*ck really needs to just go away and STFU.
“The Emperor Norton” was quaint in an age where such lunacy had only a very local reach. The world can’t afford that anymore.
Eat more highly processed food!!
Why do these people hate cows?
If you can’t eat cows or milk cows they will go extinct rapidly because they are not suited to live in the wild. Especially milk cows. No calf can keep up with a Holstein cows milk production which will cause the cow problems.
Because they hate people. They’ll have cows for themselves, make no mistake. They just don’t want us peasants eating beef and butter.
How is that 25K square foot plant powered? And what chemicals does it use? Where do those chemicals come from?
Nature and nature’s God have already figured out how to make butter. Nutritious butter. No need to reinvent the wheel.
For a smart guy, Bill Gates is incredibly dumb.
Bill, Bill, Bill: Didn’t Windows ME teach you anything? Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
Windows 11. From the folks that brought you Windows ME, Clippy, and the Zune.
Well it won’t let me paste a picture but reminds me of this meme
God: What are they doing down there?
Angel: Making milk from almonds.
God:What! I gave them like 8 animals to get good milk from.
Angel: They don’t like that milk
God: ??? (puzzled look.)
“So everyone is already ingesting delicious “bovine” carbon already.
This article seems more like “bovine anal material”
For a supposed genius, Billy Boy is incredibly dumb. And evil.
Go ahead and enjoy that product Bill…you and all your progressive globalist boot-lickers…knock yourselves out.
Carbon-free butter, when butter is. huydrocarbon.
So.
Is carbon-free butter the dairy parallel to dehydrated water?
You didn’t hear it from me, but the factory shares a building with a silicone implant manufacturer.
Only a boob would believe that.
When I was in first grade I read a story about a little black boy who made carbon-free butter by tying tigers to a tree. They ran so fast they turned into butter.
If only I could recall its name.
Then I could give it to all the kids in my family,
I see a place for this if it is chemically the equivalent of butter. And it also applies to lab grown meat. In the settlement of Mars, until Mars has a sustainable agricultural base, there will be the need for these products. By the time Mars has a sustainable agricultural base, the problems of transporting livestock to Mars should be solved. But if I were alive then (I won’t be), I would not like to be on that “cattle car”.
As long as we don’t let the hippies run it.
Toured Biosphere Two 25 years ago. What a dumpster fire.
Chose Saharan lablab beans (toxic) as their basic protein supply. Couldn’t manage to keep them alive in a native desert environment.
Then all their bees died.
After that, it was all over but the participation trophies.
“Cow-Free Butter…” “Carbon-Free Butter…”
Why not? Gates already wrung every buck possible out of
“Service-Free Technology.”
If this product really tastes like butter and acts like butter, and it’s not insanely expensive, I’ll probably be a customer.
Yes, as someone said above, it would be margarine 2.0. And that’s a good thing. Though margarine has already been through many major revisions, so it wouldn’t be 2.0; maybe 10.0. Today’s margarine is nothing like the crap that was invented 150 years ago. It’s a lot better, but it’s still not butter, which is why most butter substitutes contain…. butter. If this is completely dairy-free and still tastes like real butter, I’m in.