Non-PETA AR activist here. PETA basically trolls for money and controversy. Any AR activists wishing for animal death and suffering based on some kind of twisted dogmatic ideology should really step back and try to remember why we become activists in the first place, because they've completely lost the plot.

More to the point, RIP Knut. As for the zoo's involvement, it was a bad situation at the start, but it seemed they tried their best given Knut's unfortunate circumstances. People would be angry if they killed him, too - it's lose-lose for them. (The Youtube start image does look like a baby polar bear rug though.)

If you're eating potato chips so often that washing your hands becomes tedious, maybe you have a problem bigger than Potato Chip Hand can solve.