The Highwire with Del Bigtree - I CAN BELIEVE IT’S NOT BUTTER

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

A new lab-made “butter,” developed by a Bill Gates–backed California company, boasts production entirely without photosynthesis—eliminating greenhouse gas emissions. What will be sacrificed next in the name of climate conservation?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

If you didn't think it was bad enough that, you know, essentially they're going to turn you into a vegetarian. Maybe we won't even get that for. What if you don't need to eat anything that comes from this earth as we know it? Did you know that there's a new butter product that never needed any sunshine to be created? Take a look at this. It looks, smells, and tastes like the butter we're all familiar with, but without the farmland, fertilizers, or emissions tied to that typical process. The company is called Saver, and you better believe it. Their pioneering tech uses carbon and hydrogen to make the stick of butter you see on this plate.

Looks and taste and feels exactly like dairy butter, but with no agriculture whatsoever. It's really just our fat, some water, a little bit of less than is an emulsifier, and some natural flavor in color. Fats are made up of carbon and hydrogen chains. The goal here, replicate those chains without animals or plants. carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water. Heat them up and oxidize them. The final result. It looks like a wax, like a candle wax at first. But they're fat molecules, like the ones in beef, cheese, or vegetable oils. It's all done releasing zero greenhouse gases, using no farmland to feed cows. Of the 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases emitted every year, 7% is from the production

of fats and oils from animals and plants, and their home lab base in San Jose, California, backed by Bill Gates, who wrote in his blog, quote, The idea of switching to lab-made fats and oils may seem strange at first, but their potential to significantly reduce our carbon footprint is immense. It's a totally non-agricultural method for producing food. The fats that savor makes are made by a thermochemical process. They are the only foods in the world so far. that are made entirely without photosynthesis.

That's great. I wouldn't have been able to tell you that wasn't part. The only foods made completely and totally without photosynthesis. I want to make a point here, folks. You've got to listen to or take a look at who we're listening to, who we're believing in. Photosynthesis, the idea, what they're against then, apparently, is the sun.

This is a war now on the sun. because up until right now, everything we eat is just some way to take that sun energy and, you know, envive it, to take it into your body, whether you want to be a vegetarian and eat vegetables that are taking into photosynthesis and you're processing that, then you have carnivore diets where people believe actually going through three stomachs, three stomachs of an animal might better refine that energy and get it to you and more delivery. I'm not going to get into that argument, but at the center of that argument, but at the center of that argument is the fact that what we're all living off of is sunshine. But there is a group of

people that do not believe in sunshine. They hate the sun. They started with petroleum products about 50 years ago that you slather all over every pore of your body to block the sun. The sun that gives you the vitamin D that runs your immune system that if you had the vitamin D, you could not die from COVID. That same sun, that same sun, that now that we're slathering ourselves in sun tan lotion, we have higher rates of skin cancer than the way. world has ever seen. Now let's make sure that we start filling our bodies with products that have zero sunlight in them, zero energy. Folks, can we all come to the same conclusion together? I think the world is being taken over by vampires. That's what I think Bill Gates is. That's what I think

is happening here. I finally figured out he's not an alien. He's a vampire. And he hates the sun, he hates humanity, and he hates life. So let's put death inside of you. Let's go ahead and make a petroleum jelly into butter. I want to say this. Elon Musk, can you please get that missile, that rocket ready to go to Mars, and the first people on it are all the people that want to eat petroleum jelly butter? Everyone that doesn't want anything for the sun that can't go on the Earth, send them to Mars. Will you please get them to Mars immediately? We've got to have a solution. I think that's it. Go live on a planet where nothing grows anyway. We will send 5 trillion tons of petroleum butter with you and every other fake food you want to eat and you can live on Mars.

The rest of us are going to walk in the woods. We're going to enjoy the nature. And if we die because of it, so be it. We were natural beings in a natural experience. And I will go ahead and accept that way back when there was dinosaurs, when this place looked like a giant terranium, when it was filled with every plant you could imagine, it was lusher than we've ever seen it, that CO2 was running rampant. much higher than it is now. I want that world.

I want to live in the garden world. I want to live in Eden. I want it back. So get the vampires off this planet. I'm going to work on that this week. I hope you'll help me, and I'll see you next week on the high wire.