According to the page Earth On January 25, buffalo gallstones, used to prepare the taste of the Taurus in Eastern medicine, is becoming a popular item in the black market and global smuggling lines. Criminal gangs on many continents have begun to hunt for gallstones, especially in countries with strengths in the production of cattle like Brazil.
The information transmitted about the rarity of cow gallstones makes the night fall, slaughterhouses in Brazil become the target of the thief. Cattle gallstones have become so valuable that the black market traders are ready to pay up to 5,800 USD/ounce (more than 145 million VND), double the price of gold.
Inside a slaughterhouse in Brazil
The stones in buffalo bile have been used as a long -standing oriental medicine and only appears in infected buffaloes. Pebbles are often dried, crushed into powder and then combined with other ingredients to form pills that some people believe can help treat serious conditions such as stroke. Some rumors of exaggerating cow gallstones as a “panacea” treating the disease increased the price of this item and promoted the wave of gallstones hunting gallstones in the slaughterhouses.
Increasing demand has created a wave of hunting gallstones in the US, Australia and especially Brazil – the largest cow exporting country in the world in 2023. This item is blooming in the black market. “People hear about high prices and they gradually lose control” researcher Daniela Gomes da Silva from Sao Paulo State University (Brazil) said to The Wall Street Journal.
Investigators in Brazil Rafael Faria said that it was initially thinking this was a joke “, but the day when the stolen and smuggling of cow gallstones to bring the buyer. Recently, an armed bandit broke into the farm near the city of Barretos, Brazil, tied the landlord and his 6 -year -old grandson before fleeing with the number of cow gallstones worth $ 50,000.
