{"id":13249,"date":"2013-12-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/12\/29\/mukesh-ambani-s-reliance-retail-stores-eliminate-chicken-sales\/"},"modified":"2013-12-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T12:00:00","slug":"mukesh-ambani-s-reliance-retail-stores-eliminate-chicken-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/12\/29\/mukesh-ambani-s-reliance-retail-stores-eliminate-chicken-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukesh Ambani&#8217;s Reliance Retail Stores Eliminate Chicken Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/naazneenkarmali\/2013\/12\/16\/mukesh-ambanis-reliance-retail-chickens-out-turns-vegetarian\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, December 16, 2013 (Forbes): Mukesh Ambani, India&#8217;s richest person, who&#8217;s a strict vegetarian and animal lover, has issued an order banning all nonvegetarian products from his Reliance Retail chain. This involves shutting down 100-odd Reliance Delight stores that sell a range of fresh and frozen meats and seafood, including the Real brand of frozen chicken owned by fellow billionaire Adi Godrej&#8217;s group.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Ambani took this decision to go vegetarian after demands from a section of shareholders of his Reliance Industries who claimed that Reliance&#8217;s nonvegetarian business hurt their religious sentiments. According to one news report, a good chunk of the company&#8217;s shareholders are also strict vegetarians like Ambani and belong to the Gujarati community (as Ambani does himself) or are Jains. A spokesperson of the company confirmed to Forbes that the move was being mulled within the group for a few months now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, December 16, 2013 (Forbes): Mukesh Ambani, India&#8217;s richest person, who&#8217;s a strict vegetarian and animal lover, has issued,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}