Details are hard to find because mainstream news is a joke, but I did find two noteworthy articles to back my claims, at least in my mind. About 60 or 65 percent of the worlds diamonds come from Africa. Many, not all these diamond mines are known as blood diamonds. In short a lot of blood diamonds are mined by children who are forced into the mining business with little or no pay. Big corporations love the injustices they commit over seas and far from the eyes of the American public, so they can purchase goods, in this case diamonds and get American men to pay insane amounts of money for a tiny shiny rock to solidify his love for his women.
If your forced into buying diamonds, get them from Canada. Word around the campfire has it that Canada is a legit diamond business according to the article "This Valentine's Day, Don't Contribute to Slave Labor" by Grace Malloy originally published in Feb. 2011, updated in August. (http://www.dailycampus.com/commentary/this-valentine-s-day-don-t-contribute-to-slave-labor-1.1975458#.Uv3pg1jTnIU)
The diamond business like any large money maker is based on corruption and the torture of the weak and poor in other countries. Malloy's article claims the chocolate industry is the same way, using child slavery to manufacture cheap goods for the almighty consumer.
Because I'm a sole entity, I never have to worry about feeding big business's with any of my money on Valentines day.
The following paragraph is word for word what Malloy wrote in her article "This Valentine's Day, Don't Contribute to Slave Labor: We live in a capitalist society where corporations have an enormous amount of power and can do as they please without being monitored. They profit from exploitation and, therefore, they give little to no thought concerning human rights violations for which they are directly or indirectly responsible. So, it is our responsibility, as consumers, to make sure those corporations that make use of slave labor pay for their actions. It is a power of which we have rarely taken advantage.
For those people who believe diamonds are a good investment, they may want to do some extensive research. Most people don't get half of what they paid for their diamonds if they tried to resell them the very next day after purchase them according to Ira Weissman's Aug. 2012 article "7 Reasons Why Diamonds Are a Waste of Your Money" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-weissman/7-reasons-why-you-shouldn_b_1720870.html)
Weissman's article details how she's been in the diamond business for more than 10 years and one of the diamond industries big companies; De Beers diamond syndicate brainwashed people into the romance of diamonds and made it seem like diamonds and romance have gone hand in hand since the ancient times. In reality it's been about 100 years that engagement diamond rings have been the norm. De Beer originally targeted people 15-years-old and older into the romance aspect of diamonds.
I'll buy no diamonds, I'll buy no gold, make a white man rich in South Africa, make a black man poor and old, the Cadillac Tramps wrote and sung in the 90s.
