students plan protest to block Pepsi contract

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Concerned about the health and environmental impacts of PepsiCo’s operations and products, a group of student activists at UC Davis are protesting against efforts to procure a new exclusive pouring rights contract with PepsiCo, according to a press release from the group Pepsi Off Campus UC Davis.

They are planning a demonstration on Thursday at noon on the East Quad, concluding with a march on Mrak Hall.

Leo Hecht, the spokesperson for Pepsi Off Campus UC Davis, said, “As students, we must show the administration that we will not stand for a contract that limits student choice and supports the second largest plastic polluter in the world.”

A new PRC would lock UC Davis into another decade-long contract that limits beverage choices on campus to only Pepsi products. “A PRC allows Pepsi to promote unhealthy products packaged in wasteful single-use plastic while calling itself the official soft drink of UC Davis,” Hecht Without an exclusive contract, Hecht

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