Lower Your Disease Risk and Emissions With This Bill Gates-Backed Butter: “I Couldn’t Believe I Wasn’t Eating Real Butter”

A new study highlighted the benefits of replacing animal-based fats with plant-based unsaturated fats, showing that it can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. This study used a detailed method called lipidomics to measure fats in the blood and found that diets high in unsaturated plant fats can lead to a healthier blood fat profile. The World Health Organization recommends swapping out saturated fats from animal products for healthier plant-based fats to lower disease risk.

A food-tech startup called Savor, backed by Bill Gates, is pioneering a revolutionary method to create fats such as butter from carbon dioxide. By using carbon dioxide from the air and transforming it into butter and other fat-based products through chemical synthesis, Savor can produce dietary fats with significantly lower emissions compared to traditional animal butter production. Gates predicts that this technology could rapidly replace animal-derived fats, benefitting both human and planetary health.