It’s a false trade-off. Politicians have been handing lying crap dilemmas at the public and getting away with it for far too long. Such as “Social Security is going bankrupt” and treating it as a budget issue when even dotard actor pretending to be president Ronald Reagan said the truth that it had nothing to do with the budget because it’s a separate system. And by the way it’s not going bankrupt. Raising ridiculous irrelevant arguments as if we need to compromise and balance.
“Oh, there are poor people suffering, so let’s not be good to animals.” No, let’s stop letting banks and corporations run our government, stop giving tax breaks to the super-wealthy, and treat everyone (including animals, excluding corrupt politicians and greedbag corporate pawns) well.