In this article, I will discuss Man made diamonds vs. real diamonds. As you know, the traditional way to buy diamonds was to visit your jewelers and choose a real diamond ring for someone that you loved. Today, many have chosen Man made diamonds, mainly due to real life issues.

Some Painful Facts about Real Diamonds

Beyond the glitter of real diamonds are a few saddening facts.

1. There are only a few companies that have a monopoly on diamond production. Other startups would be quickly crushed if they tried to muscle in on the diamond business.

The top diamond companies spend most of their time on slick ad campaigns against synthetic diamonds. They want you to think that if diamonds do not come from mining, they cannot be worth anything. The fact is, Man made diamonds are just as beautiful (if not more) as real diamonds. They are just as shiny, they can also cut glass like a real diamond, and it takes a special test to determine that they are not real diamonds.

2. Why are diamonds so highly priced? All stones are precious, but the prices of diamonds are set high because a few companies control how diamonds are distributed, and because of the tight control of diamond mines.

3. Blood diamonds do exist; it’s not only a movie. Countries such as: Angola, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia all produce conflict diamonds. Many profits made from real diamonds in these countries are returned in the form of weapons that are used by armed groups to fight against their elected governments.

Regardless of your feelings about one government, or another, your main concern should be in the slave labor that goes on in these mines. While diamond companies make trillions of dollars, the same people who dig up those precious stones don’t even have enough money for food.

Enter The Man made Diamond

Man made diamonds are generated out of the same compounds that form real diamonds beneath the earth. The only difference is that duplication can be created in a few days and not over millions of years.

Machines use high pressure and high temperatures to turn three-dimensional carbon crystal into diamonds. Not only do these machines produce diamonds, they produce diamonds that are nearly identical to any real diamond.

Imagine that, beautiful diamonds produced and manufactured without people getting shot, or having their limbs hacked off? These powerful diamond companies are worried because Man made diamond factories will soon produce Man made diamonds that are perfect in both shape and color.

Globalization has made many countries more environmentally and socially conscious. No longer is it O.K. for countries to do whatever they want. Now, they must answer to the rest of the world. Whether it is people not wearing furs, because innocent animals are killed, or people not buying real diamonds, because too many people need to die for them, people are making a change for the better.

Man made diamonds are not just economically affordable; they are the socially proper choice in a world that has become much smaller, and wiser.

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