{"id":2959,"date":"2018-02-11T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/02\/11\/peter-rabbit-criticized-for-allergy-bullying\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T18:16:09","slug":"peter-rabbit-criticized-for-allergy-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/02\/11\/peter-rabbit-criticized-for-allergy-bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Peter Rabbit\u2019 Criticized for \u2018Allergy Bullying\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/peter-rabbit\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peter-rabbit\">Peter Rabbit<\/a>&#8221; hasn&#8217;t exactly endeared itself to critics, with the newest take on Beatrix Potter&#8217;s beloved children&#8217;s book garnering mixed reviews. One other group that isn&#8217;t a fan of the film: food-allergy organizations, which are taking issue with its &#8220;allergy bullying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/09\/peter-rabbit-trailer-beatrix-potter-bunny-1201878784\/\" title=\"\u2018Peter Rabbit\u2019 Trailer: Beatrix Potter\u2019s Beloved Kids\u2019 Book Bunny Gets a Naughty New Origin Story \u2014 Watch\">\u2018Peter Rabbit\u2019 Trailer: Beatrix Potter\u2019s Beloved Kids\u2019 Book Bunny Gets a Naughty New Origin Story \u2014 Watch<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>The scene in question reportedly involves Peter and his cohort attacking the villain, played by Domhnall Gleeson, with blackberries; they do so knowing that he&#8217;s allergic to berries, and he&#8217;s forced to inject his Epipen into his leg.<\/p>\n<p>Global Anaphylaxis Awareness and Inclusivity (Globalaai), an Australian organization, has created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/sony-pictures-sony-pictures-apologise-for-depicting-food-allergy-bullying-in-peter-rabbit-movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a petition<\/a> asking Sony Pictures to apologize. It claims that the film \u201cmocks the seriousness of allergic disease and is heartbreakingly disrespectful to the families of those that have lost loved ones to anaphylaxis.&#8221; It currently has more than 6,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/02\/dylan-farrow-woody-allen-new-york-times-bret-stephens-1201927407\/\" title=\"Dylan Farrow Responds to New York Times Article Doubting Her Woody Allen Story: \u2018I\u2019ve Consistently Stated the Truth\u2019\">Dylan Farrow Responds to New York Times Article Doubting Her Woody Allen Story: \u2018I\u2019ve Consistently Stated the Truth\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kidswithfoodallergies\/posts\/10156713093435961:0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a Facebook post<\/a>, Kids with Food Allergies Foundation writes that it &#8220;believes that food allergy &#8216;jokes&#8217; are harmful to our community&#8221; and that &#8220;making light of this condition hurts our members because it encourages the public not to take the risk of allergic reactions seriously, and this cavalier attitude may make them act in ways that could put an allergic person in danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sony has yet to respond.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! 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Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Peter Rabbit&#8221; hasn&#8217;t exactly endeared itself to critics, with the newest take on Beatrix Potter&#8217;s beloved children&#8217;s book garnering mixed reviews&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-LJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}