I was flabbergasted at the justifications of the sellers for supporting child labour in this industry: >>If anything, Stamison wonders if the circumstances of

I was flabbergasted at the justifications of the sellers for supporting child labour in this industry: >>If anything, Stamison wonders if the circumstances of miners in Madagascar, “makes the pieces a lot more special. Because I know some person in a little baby hut was actually polishing it by hand, and they’re setting their intentions into it, too,” she said. “People’s intentions and people’s energy are put into the stones as they’re producing it.” “So the circumstances they’re mined in, they are embedded into the stone somehow?” I asked. “I think so. A little bit, it has to be. It has to be.”