APOCRYPHA WATCH:

Plenty of bullocks and bureaucrats
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Wed, 11 Jun 2008
Opinion

Farmers are unfairly blamed for all sorts of ills; the latest is rising food prices, writes Gerry Eckhoff.

"How can he get wisdom . . . whose talk is of bullocks?" So says the book of the Apocrypha - Ecclesiastes, from the Old Testament.

We farmers are told that food production (beef ) is a good thing to do - but only as long as it is cheap and sustainable, so I guess that is why we farmers still talk of bullocks 2000 years later, and how to get cheap food on the tables of the great unwashed even cheaper.

The quotation is from Sirach 38:25. Whether the context fits, I leave up to you.