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Published 16:35 21 Mar 2016 GMT
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While we presume that the clothing chain were playing on the fact that the gluten-free diet has become somewhat of a popular trend, people are up in arms that the t-shirt makes fun of a serious illness.
The coeliac community is so unhappy with the design that they have started up a petition on change.org to get Zara to remove the t-shirt - and it has already received 53,000 signatures.
Marta Casadesius, who started the petition explained to The Local:
"The truth is that I just wanted Zara to reflect on the message, I was trying to explain that perhaps it wasn't the best way to make people aware of the illness."
Zara have since issued an apology, saying:
"The T-shirt mentioned in this petition was pulled from our online store a few weeks ago now and we are currently confirming that it is not for sale in our stores either.
"We sincerely regret that this case might be interpreted as a trivialization of coeliac disease, the absolute opposite of our intentions."Life
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