{"id":7055,"date":"2015-11-15T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psi2030.wpengine.com\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2018-05-22T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:22:40","slug":"an-evening-with-peter-singer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/news\/an-evening-with-peter-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Peter Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,500 people packed Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University on a Friday night to hear Singer. The event was organized by local effective altruists, who have formed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/givingwhatwecandc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Giving\u00a0What We Can DC<\/a>, and by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/\" target=\"_blank\">PSI<\/a>(Population Services International), a big global health and development nonprofit favored by Singer. Singer signed books at a reception afterwards and then dined on a vegetarian menu \u2014 butternut squash soup, risotto, tofu, poached pears \u2014 with followers at Nora, oft-celebrated organic eatery. Singer wrote an influential book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Animal-Liberation-Peter-Singer\/dp\/0060011572\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Liberation<\/a> in 1975; many effective altruists are vegetarians or vegans because they take seriously the suffering of animals on factory farms.<span id=\"more-1000\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On stage, Singer took an upbeat approach to what could be a downbeat subject. Problems of poverty and disease can seem hopeless, he noted, but they are not. Certainly the needs are great\u2013UNICEF says thousands of poor children below the age of five die every day\u2013but the world now knows how to prevent or even eliminate diseases like polio, malaria and TB. \u201cT<span class=\"s1\">here are 16,000 dying each day now, but there were 27,000 dying each day less than 10 years ago,\u201d Singer said. \u201cThat\u2019s tremendous progress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nonprofitchronicles.com\/2015\/11\/15\/an-evening-with-peter-singer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article on the Non-Profit Chronicles website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"health-area":[],"capabilities-and-cross-cutting":[],"class_list":["post-7055","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"About 1,500 people packed Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University on a Friday night to hear Singer. 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