Savor, a company in Batavia, Illinois, makes butter from carbon and hydrogen with no agriculture whatsoever. The butter looks, smells, and tastes like real butter but without the farmland, fertilizer, or emissions tied to the typical process.
The company expects its products to be available on shelves for the average consumer by around 2027. Savor is backed by billionaire Bill Gates, who says lab-made fats and oils have an immense potential to significantly reduce humans’ carbon footprint.
Read the article on CBS News.
Sources:
• TLDR. (2025, August 11). TLDR Newsletter. https://a.tldrnewsletter.com/web-version?ep=1&lc=f5cb7e17-003d-11ed-9258-0241b9615763&p=49d172fc-7685-11f0-9288-afd07c8a0780&pt=campaign&t=1754909744&s=f4da54bba947e4297e9e21dc84ef0bd7df692f8236efa6fec33c190708e12afe
• Molina, T. (2025, August 7). Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/butter-carbon-bill-gates-batavia-illinois
