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MEDIA RELEASE                                  CONTACT:For Immediate Release                         Greg Moore (cell)May 20, 2008                                        (603) 568-8159
John Stephen Offers Plan To Cut Skyrocketing Food PricesCandidate's Plan Removes Federal Mandates, Subsidies And Price Controls To Reduce Costs
MANCHESTER, NH- 1st District Congressional Candidate John Stephen today released a plan to reduce food costs, which have skyrocketed over the past year.  Stephen noted that the price of corn has grown by 150% in less than three years and that wheat has increased by 109% in just the past year.  He called for immediate action by Congress to eliminate the ethanol mandate for gasoline, to get rid of farm subsidies that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year and raise the cost of grain, to remove the federal price floors which hike crop prices and make it difficult for American farmers to sell overseas, to stop paying farmers to farm on bad land and, modeling on programs currently run by New Hampshire counties, to start using non-violent federal prisoners to farm available and open federal land on prison grounds to provide food to pantries and nutrition programs servicing low-income seniors.  Each of these plans would help to lower the price of food for American consumers.