I don't know what the future holds. I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen to our government

and our system. I think that we are moving towards a breaking point. I do believe that. But in the

meantime, I believe that we can actually change things in our local levels. You know, I mean, gosh,

I've been on several times in the last five years with you. And I've always said that globalism is the

problem and localism is the problem and

localism is the solution. I totally applaud what Secretary Kennedy is doing and how he's trying to

help us. But he can't save us on his own. What we can do, however, is to work in our localities,

in our states and our local communities to push back.

From the Weston A. Price Foundation,

welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts.

We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.

And now here is our host and producer Hilda Labrata Gore.

Hey, Hilda here. In April 2025, the Idaho Medical Freedom Act was passed.

Our guest today crafted the legislation and lobbied to get it passed to protect residents of Idaho from being fired, excluded, or discriminated against

for not taking or using a medical intervention. Could you pass something similar wherever you

live? What can you do to preserve medical freedom and

autonomy for you and your community? This is episode 546, and our guest today is Leslie

Manukian. Leslie is the founder and president of the Health Freedom Defense Fund. We held this

conversation in front of members of the Weston A. Price Foundation in a Zoom

meeting, and Leslie gave us the backstory on what motivated her in the first place to help her fellow

Idaho residents. She worked hard to get it past, though she faced many hurdles. And today she talks

about how big tech has been implicated in the suppression of our freedom and why it is so

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