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🗓️ 25 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | If you didn't think it was bad enough that, you know, essentially they're going to turn you into a vegetarian, maybe we won't even get that for. |
| 0:08.5 | What if you don't need to eat anything that comes from this earth as we know it? |
| 0:13.0 | Did you know that there's a new butter product that never needed any sunshine to be created? |
| 0:18.6 | Take a look at this. |
| 0:19.9 | It looks, smells, and tastes like the butter we're all familiar with, but without the farmland, |
| 0:25.6 | fertilizers, or emissions tied to that typical process. The company is called Saver, and you better believe it. |
| 0:32.6 | Their pioneering tech uses carbon and hydrogen to make the stick of butter you see on this plate. |
| 0:39.1 | Looks and taste and feels exactly like dairy butter, but with no agriculture whatsoever. |
| 0:44.5 | It's really just our fat, some water, a little bit of less than as an emulsifier, and some natural flavor in color. |
| 0:50.9 | Fats are made up of carbon and hydrogen chains. |
| 0:58.0 | The goal here, replicate those chains without animals or plants. They take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water. Heat them up and oxidize them. The final result? |
| 1:06.0 | It looks like a wax, like a candle wax at first. But they're fat molecules, like the ones in beef, cheese, or vegetable oils. |
| 1:14.6 | It's all done releasing zero greenhouse gases, using no farmland to feed cows. Of the 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases emitted every year, |
| 1:24.6 | 7% is from the production of fats and oils from animals and plants, |
| 1:29.9 | and their home lab base in San Jose, California, backed by Bill Gates, who wrote in his blog, |
| 1:36.5 | quote, the idea of switching to lab-made fats and oils may seem strange at first, but their |
| 1:41.6 | potential to significantly reduce our carbon footprint is immense. |
| 1:46.0 | It's a totally non-agricultural method for producing food. The fats that savor makes are made by a thermochemical process. |
| 1:54.0 | They are the only foods in the world so far that are made entirely without photosynthesis. |
| 2:00.0 | That's great. |
| 2:01.6 | I wouldn't have been able to tell you that wasn't part. |
| 2:06.6 | The only foods made completely and totally without photosynthesis. |
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