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'Butter' made from CO2 could pave the way for food without farming

US start-up Savor says its synthetic vegan fat, made without livestock or the crops needed for margarine, could cut carbon emissions and save rainforests

By Madeleine Cuff

9 July 2024

Savor’s synthetic butter

Savor

A new type of dietary fat that doesn’t require animals or large areas of land to produce could soon be on sale in the US as researchers and entrepreneurs race to develop the first 鈥渟ynthetic鈥 foodstuffs.

US start-up Savor has created a 鈥渂utter鈥 product made from carbon, in a thermochemical system closer to fossil fuel processing than food production. 鈥淭here is no biology involved in our specific process,鈥 says from the firm.

Instead, its butter is derived from the carbon…

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