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.
The “thing” with cholesterol is that the science wasn’t actually wrong. Eating foods laced with cholesterol is indeed unhealthy, which is why everyone thought cholesterol was to blame. Turns out that cholesterol is not to blame. The real culprit was saturated fat. Coincidentally, saturated is most concentrated in animal products, which also contain cholesterol. Oops. Well, we knew something in there was destroying people’s cardiovascular systems.
But hey, all that would require knowing biochemistry and that is just too inconvenient for most folks. Easier to treat food as a religion.