Modern society undoubtedly depends heavily on the utilization of natural resources. In particular, animals are widely utilized in industries such as food, commerce, and research. These animals include mammals, which are considered very similar to human beings. Although researchers have examined the utilization of animals from an animal rights perspective, few have examined how such acts actually affect us as human beings. Deconstructionism posits that multiple and contradictory meanings, which

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... raditional thinking often ignores, are found when the specific meaning of a text is removed. This paper attempts to deconstruct and examine the human acts of eating and otherwise utilizing mammals to see the implication of human treatment of other living beings as simple material resources.