[DangitBobby]

You see this type of argument used against animal welfare all the time. At the end of the day, I dismiss them all as "we can't be perfect so we might as well do nothing".

As the article suggests, imagine you must live the lifetime of 1 million factory farmed shrimps. Would you then rather people quibble over whether we should hunt whales to extinction and ultimately do nothing (including never actually hunting whales to extinction to save you because they don't actually care about you), or would you rather they attempt to reduce your suffering in those millions of deaths as much as possible?