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If humans actually went out to personally hunt and kill every animal that they ate (particularly those animals that need population control due to human caused lack of natural predators), I would have no problem with it in terms of ethics.
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So, I guess you think that the answer to my question is that eating an animal by a human might or might not constitute environmental "damage" depending on the circumstances. Is the requirement to hunt an animal the only circumstance that plays a role here? What about mass-hunting animals by luring them into environmentally-friendly holes and slaughtering them with rocks? What about the "last bengali tiger" argument - do you consider the killing of the last bengali tiger by a hungry man (who does the killing with his bare hands and then eats the meat raw without ever lighting a match) to not be "damage"? What are the bounds?