I boycotted them a long time ago.
People are dying for that diamond.... it can not feed your or your family, and the destruction to the environment... ghastly! Do your own research. I am sure you can find a better way to say "I LOVE YOU!"
http://www.debeers.com/
http://www.debeersgroup.com/canada/en/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers
The De Beers Group of Companies has a leading role in the diamond exploration, diamond mining, diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. The company is currently active in open-pit, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea mining.[2] The company operates in 28 countries and mining takes place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Canada. Until the start of the 21st century, De Beers effectively had total control over the diamond market as both a monopoly and monopsony of diamonds.[3] Opposition has since dismantled the complete monopoly, though De Beers is still a large shareholder and currently sells approximately 35%[4] of the world’s rough diamond production through its Global Sightholder Sales and Auction Sales businesses.[5]
Click here or google it yourself what an open pit mine looks like
https://www.google.ca/search?q=debeers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVwM_HtpfPAhVHImMKHfWxCsgQ_AUICSgC&biw=1366&bih=659#tbm=isch&q=debeers+mine
"Yes, these are rural places and the costs of physical and mental health care rise in these areas. But remote areas like the Cree homeland of Mushkegowuk lie atop some of the richest diamond and chromite deposits in the world, and companies like diamond giant DeBeers have huge extraction operations like Victor Mine, not far from Attawapiskat. I have no doubt that the Victor Mine site has top-notch physical and mental health care facilities. The mine couldn’t operate without them. DeBeers has the obligation to keep its employees, who toil 90 km from Attawapiskat, in top physical and mental health. They would be shut down if they didn’t. DeBeers certainly wouldn’t let that happen. Yet the people who have the most right to profit from what is being taken out of their homeland live in Third World conditions amidst another wave of attempted suicides with no accredited mental health workers living in the community."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/debeers-exploration-tango-diamond-mine-attawapiskat-1.3759588
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/06/29/483695466/botswana-s-economy-needs-more-than-diamonds-to-shine
Note: I will add more to this in a while.
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