You will always need farmers growing cows to constantly produce new ‘original samples’, tho. But they would have to focus on quality rather than quantity, and the animal would not have to be slaughtered for muscle samples.
So that would keep them from going extinct without humans.

Yeah. All the things that make them worse at anything actually useful like cutting stuff or heat sinks, somehow make them better for them.

The moment corporations see they are cheaper, they’ll start pushing for them, exaggerating their benefits like environmental impact as a propaganda tool.

But there would still be slaughtered meats for as long as there are rich assholes paying for “the true experience” or just because it’s not something everyone gets to do and they like to feel unique and superior to the rest of humanity.
Knowing those out-of-touch monsters, they’d double down in ‘the experience’ by getting to slaughter the animal themselves or something like that.

In other words, Ernie tramples all over Bert, putting him under the bottom of his boots, and Bert has to power through it.

There is such a thing as a power bottom.