Here's a little tid-bit to chew on ... Red Bull (and possibly some other brands of energy drink) uses ingredients from EOSDirect. EOSDirect is the new name of ChemNutra, the husband-and-wife Nevada company that was charged in 2007 with knowingly
distributing tainted wheat gluten from China to all the major manufacturers of wet pet food (150 brands), resulting in the deaths of thousands of cats and dogs and sickening 30,000 - 50,000.
They were only fined $35,000 and given 3 years of probation. They were also party to a multi-million dollar lawsuit but it's unclear how much they contributed to that.
So essentially when you buy these energy drinks you're helping to support a company that killed thousands of animals, changed its name and now sells ingredients to the energy drink companies.
Red Bull gives you wings, all right - just like the rest of the angels have.