Thanks for sharing Holly. I think it completely makes sense.
If consuming dairy helps someone stay vegetarian instead of giving up on reducing suffering completely then I see that as a huge win. What I've realized is that even vegans make moral trades but when we are fanatical about veganism we fail to recognize some of these trades. 

(Copying my response from Hive with some edits)
Thanks again for sharing the Faunalytics post I wasn't aware of it, it's super cool! 

I came across your EA forum post on that matter, I love that you aren't afraid to think outside the box and while I do take wild animal suffering seriously, I question:
- how much can these tiny organisms suffer, if they even can? 
- even if they felt the slightest of pain (let alone suffering), I think that focussing on these organisms may be a strategic blunder. Getting buy in for any of these ideas is nearly impossible IMO and might harm farm animals who we know with much higher certainty do suffer on factory farms.

For example there may be tardigrades living ON you!! can they suffer? (a creature with 100 neurons) or a similar one like tunicate also ~100 neurons, they can't even move as adults! (they are used as a seafood alternative in many parts of the world)

Thanks for the suggestion. I wasn't quite sure how linkposts are supposed to work. Anyway I added the post here.