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Yes, and a good example I usually bring up is keeping cows and chickens. Maybe bad from a vegan perspective but where I live there are benefits when cows are in the field. The land used to be swamp, then people changed it to farmland in the Middle Ages. There's just no going back to a swamp wilderness ((excluding the few natural areas here and there, where it's feasible to keep for water retention purposes)). This means we need to look for a compromise and cows in a field are potentially better (for insects, wildflowers and birds) than fields with one crop. In both cases animals die anyway, in the former it's the cows when they reach a certain age and in the latter it's a lot of wildlife that gets poisoned (or shot; geese for instance).
There's no perfect solutions in this world, there's greater and lesser 'evils' ((haven't found a better word but I think people can catch my perspective here..))
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