“The French court ruled in the flies’ favor,” Kell finished. “Their defense was that God commanded them to go forth and multiply. They had a brilliant lawyer.”

The case Kell is referencing here is a fictionalized (or distorted, he is broken after all) 🔗court case where weevils were sued on multiple occasions for eating crops in a vineyard. The argument was made that they were following God's will and they were offered their own field preserve to eat from in exchange for sparing the vineyards. Unfortunately in real life we don't know the outcome since insects seem to have consumed the record...