I just stopped and looked. I thought, that's a sermon illustration. They had an intense hunger for what was off limits. The farmer had put that fence there. That was out of the boundary.
Farmers are pretty smart.
They know how to get rid of spoiled hay. The cows won't eat it if the hay becomes damp or mouldy. But they will shove and push to eat every scrap of that musty stuff if the farmer dumps it just on the other side of the fence. Christians are a lot like cows and goats. Some Christians are like old goats.