A WEF ‘Summer Davos’ summary: fake food, putting value on nature & robots galore
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Fake food labs can clear farming land for data centers, wind farms & solar panels: perspective
The World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting of the New Champions, aka “Summer Davos,” concludes with a focus on fake food, putting a value on nature, and prepping for a robot invasion.
The WEF Summer Davos meeting took place June 23-25 in Dalian, China, and here is a Sociable summary of what went down.
First up, we see that fake food labs can reduce the amount of land needed for growing crops and raising livestock, so all the habitable land can be used for data centers, solar panels, and wind farms.
On the fake food agenda, we have Kathleen Alexander, who is the co-founder and CEO of Savor — a Bill Gates-backed company that fabricates fake fats in a factory that have never been proven to have any of the micronutritional value of real butter.
For Alexander, thermo-chemcially created fake fats and oils are about reducing the habitable land and energy that goes into traditional farming towards a more synthetic and sustainable solution.
“Our food system today uses about 50 percent of the habitable land on the planet. It’s 20-30 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions; 70 percent of fresh water withdrawals, and we can reduce all of those by 50-100 percent”Kathleen Alexander, WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions, June 2026
In her own words, Alexander doesn’t want habitable land to be used for producing real food. She said that land could be reduced by 50-100 percent.
Savor’s chemical products contain neither milk nor cream, and are therefore not butter by definition.
At Summer Davos, Alexander explained that the idea to create fake fats and oils came from a top-down approach that started with the question, “What is food?”
Bill Gates-backed Savor CEO Kathleen Alexander creates fake food.
"Bringing new ingredient sources to the food system is a key part of the durability of our species, both on this planet & hopefully some day beyond it" WEF Summer Davos #AMNC26 https://t.co/w2pKkARpyo pic.twitter.com/Qd25pbMDuN— Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) June 25, 2026