The scienc-fiction writer H. Beam Piper postulated this sort of thing in the late ‘50s or early ‘60s. He coined the term “carniculture” for it; the idea was as a means of growing meat on starships or planets not friendly to Earth type farming.
I foresee a factory of giant towers, like an oil refinery, making ‘meat’ to order.
Pork, chicken, beef, mutton, goat, fish, all in a days work...............
It's amazing how well his science fiction stories anticipated todays technology
about the only trend he missed out on was the sudden shift from huge mainframe computers to small personal computers and smart phones. Then again, neither did IBM, Burroughs, DEC, Cray, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, General Electric and RCA so I guess Piper can be excused on that one.
BTW, many of Piper's old stories are public domain free downloads in e- book format on Project Gutenberg at www.gutenberg.org
True, but the first thing I thought of was Chicken Little from The Space Merchants, by Pohl and Kornbluth. (Piper was OK, too.)