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> I am generally suspicious
> I am generally suspicious of any reasoning arguing that “lack of overwhelming confidence in proposition X” directly implies one ought to choose a specific area to focus time and resources on.
Fair enough, I wasn’t trying to say that animal advocacy is definitely the best thing, I was more saying that you seem overconfident in your claim that it doesn’t have important effects on the far future or that its value is swamped by x-risk reduction.