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Killing something isn't the issue. Keeping something just alive enough to harvest a part of it over and over again is the part I have a problem with. This is not a humane practice.
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And yet, when people do it with corals and anemones, it's called fragging. Besides, many starfish reproduce asexually in just that way. Just saying that it's not exactly a black and white situation. I'm not exactly completely comfortable with the idea myself, though I suppose that it's possible to maintain 50 starfish in a separate system so that you'd only have to harvest one arm from one starfish once per year. Would that be better since you're avoiding the "just alive enough" part? Or, is it better to just give the shrimp the whole starfish at once so that it just dies and then you haven't cut off an arm?
I'm not saying that it's not a moral quandary. I just don't think it's a simple one.