I went from ~8 years of vegan diet back to meat eating when the rabbits started eating the trees I had planted. Very nice with elderflower. I think exactly where one draws the line is a personal matter. Flanders and Swan had a sketch, The Reluctant Cannibal, with the clinching arguement being that saying you shouldn't eat people was just as absurd as saying you shouldn't kill people (What? No War! ), but my favourite observation was from Alan Bleasdale, who would eat chicken, because if he was hungry in a jungle he'd have a fair chance of taking on a chicken, but not a cow, and so he didn't eat beef.
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Heh, that's an interesting way to think about it. But isn't that also kind of like the naturalistic fallacy? Just because something is "natural" doesn't mean it's good for the wellbeing of conscious creatures.
The video talked about not wanting to eat your family cat after it dies and immediately my mind went to "Oh my gosh, could someone make an argument for eating grandma after she dies?" Chilling thought, that.
If the fox eats the rabbit, that's natural, without any need to think about well-being (although that would be possible). If the man eats the rabbit, the qualitative difference as I see it, is not to do with natural, but with the fact that we think about it, or not-think about it. So the first step is to think clearly, and then ... well, I think it's a very personal decision.