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Carl Le Blanc of Climate Healers best put the 26th annual Conference of the Parties or COP26 in two lines: “The cow in the room is being ignored at this Cop. Animal agriculture has been taken off the agenda and put on the menu.” Despite the ambitious goals, food systems, together with agriculture and particularly food and diet, were thought out-of-bounds during the two-week conference. Although there was a lot of talk about conserving forests and mentioning coal as the single biggest contributor to climate change, there was less about reducing meat consumption and firm pledges to change farming subsidy systems.    Why was it left out? “Energy is the fastest and most direct way to tackle methane emissions. Diet is just too controversial, we just don’t know viable solutions and the data isn’t conclusive,” Dr. Steve Hamburg of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) explained. This is despite the fact that global food production is responsible for a third of the overall planet-hea...