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More than 80 percent of the population lives in poverty (Representational)Beirut: Layla Ibrahim has reduced her daily meat consumption not because of

Lebanon is grappling with an unprecedented financial crisis that the World Bank says is of a scale usually associated with full-scale wars.

Layla Ibrahim has cut down on her daily meat consumption, not because of a health fad but forced by Lebanon's bruising economic crisis.

Layla Ibrahim has cut down on her daily meat consumption, not because of a health fad, but forced by Lebanon’s bruising economic crisis. “I used to eat a slice of meat, chicken or fish every day, but the prices of these items have become ridiculous,” the 44-year-old mother of two said. “Out of necessity and not choice, I have almost become a vegetarian,” she added. Lebanon is grappling with an unprecedented financial crisis that the World Bank says is of a size usually associated with...