red bull

My girlfriend came back from work today to tell me that one of her collleagues has advised her not to drink Red Bull if she is vegetarian, as it contains taurine, which is extracted from bull's testicles! Anybody have any idea where that one came from?

I was sitting in a waiting room leafing through an old copy of OK or Hello magazine (one of those celebrity gossip rags anyway) from Autumn 2001, when I came across an article on 'Natural Highs' which said that the Swedish authorities were investigating 3 deaths associated with drinking Red...