A California-based startup called Savor has figured out a unique way to make a butter alternative that doesn’t involve livestock, plants, or even displacing land. Their butter is produced from synthetic fat made using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and the best part is —- it tastes just like regular butter.

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Interesting way to get fat alternatives, people are already used to eating fake butter regularly, so it probably wouldn’t take much to add this to our diet.

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It’s also closer to butter than butter alternatives. It’s not made to be more healthy, just more planet friendly.

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Fake food is going to be more healthy than the real deal?

Sure buddy

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59 points

This fallacy is called an appeal to nature.

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They said it’s NOT made to be more healthy.

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I wrote it’s not made to be more healthy, because that’s the current marketing of butter alternatives. This isn’t claiming to be more healthy. The compounds are the same as the fatty acids in butter.

It’s simply a way to get butter while reducing carbon dioxide, rather than increasing it.

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If it’s chemically identical, what does it matter if it’s come from dairy, this process, or a Star Trek replicator?

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Fake medicine is going to be more healthy than the real (plant) deal? Sure buddy.

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It’s not made to be more healthy, just more planet friendly.

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Good or bad, it’s still processed food.

That’s my half-assed neutral statement. I choose not to eat processed foods. As long as there’s disclosure, I don’t care.

What people eat or don’t eat is their business.

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