To continue my devil's advocate role in this thread, by animal consumption do you mean any sort of way an animal is used by consumers? I.e. leather products, furs, etc.? I can see there being different 'levels' of animal cruelty. I mean putting perfume in a cat's eye to see how it reacts to me is not much different from dog's fighting. But I can buy the argument that animals raised for food at least provide a benefit to man kind.