On meat and marriage

"Asked what would get in the way of the law’s implementation, Zurayk, who views the historical marriage between the Lebanese state and big merchants as a root of the country’s economic problems, said “the logistics” of a convoluted market would make it difficult to maneuver. “There is nothing right in everything you get, with every single piece of paper that a trader gets in Lebanon there’s a possibility that it’s falsified … so I don’t know what mechanisms he’s going to be using in order to implement this,” said Zurayk."