Note: This would have the advantage of being politically correct.
The animals could have the pleasure receptors of their brains stimulated
for half the time. The other PC thing about this is that the animals
would plant their own waste in fields so it would not have to be treated.
They would weed fields (fertilizing where needed) to eliminate the need
for application of pesticides. They’d only eat weeds or food from
a trough, or lower useless leaves of plants so as not to cause trouble.
They would happily where "spike hoof adapters" so that their walking through
fields would aerate the ground. The meat from these animals could
satisfy Buddhists and Hindus since there would be no killing of animals
to get the meat (in fact the animals could be happier than any creature
to have ever lived on earth). The animal would run to food storage
conveyors every 2 days to "birth" a meat log. The meat log would
be kind of embryo which would be only muscle with no extra bone what so
ever. A farm could have a machine that on one side, conveyors in
a log from an
animal, washes it, and stores it cold, on the other side, a consumer
could insert a credit card to buy it. The animal would know how to drink
from a hose adapter which could be easily fit to any pipe and would never
drink from dirty water. A suburban version would cross streets only
after looking both ways and have a better ability to get home - it would
not eat any material which had mulch near by. When you buy
one of these, it could only produce a fixed number of in fertile young
based on your payment, in this way, the engineers of the technology could
make sure the life form did not spread with out them getting royalties
(fur pigmentation patterns would indicate number of "children clones allowed
and remaining"). This animal could produce food at 1 tenth the effort,
1 quarter the food cost, and 1 half the pollution output. It would
be designed to carry enough extra fat to be happy if no food were available
for a week. It’s behavior would cause nearby crop yields to rise
dramatically. It’s meat production would be tons over it’s life and
at a far lower cost per pound. When you raise an animal today, you
are mostly making skin, brain, fat, bones, fur and stuff like that.
Once ones of these animals is alive, it doesn’t grow - it just puts the
vast majority of it’s nutrients in producing meat available for shipping.
If the animal were sick, it would automatically drop any food rolls into
it’s waste receptacle. The roll need only be washed, wrapped and
kept cool until consumption. Complicated animal loading, shipping,
killing., butchering, processing would all be gone. A family with
an acre of ground could get it’s own meat. Version of cows and pigs
would come in sizes from 100 lb. all the way up to 10 ton high capacity
versions. Special versions would be able to consume general yard
waste and know how to keep a yard well manicured. "power" versions
of the creature could pull carts or farm equipment or even ride a human
at slower speeds. Later low maintenance versions could have their
fur exude an insect repellent and grow thick coats during a winter.
Of course other adaptations (easily