If it can be assumed that animals have sentience and individual cognitive abilities, then animals deserve, the argument goes, at least the same level of rights as corporations. Corporations, after all, have no sentience, no capacity to experience suffering, and technically “exist” only in a legal sense. If animals are sentient, cognitive beings that can process emotion, feel pain, and have the capacity for memory, then we must consider whether they deserve legal personhood in some form. In a legal sense, it is hard to argue that corporations do not deserve these rights because the precedent was indelibly established. With these formulations having long been established, it is difficult to contradict, vary, or add to the conception of the corporation as person. However, looking at the nature of how these corporations gained personhood gives us a better understanding of why, if corporations deserve rights as living beings, there is a basis of argumentation for the rights of animals as living beings in a legal sense as well.