When I went to South Africa, my trip was paid for by consumers in S.Africa. On the trips I've made to Canada, consumers up there paid for me to come. I won't take any donations from drug companies and neither do the groups that I interface with in other countries. There are very few companies who grow their own herbs and have absolutely no contact with any Pharmaceutical company and many of these companies have chosen to use very specific Drug Disease Claims, in violation of the law, while they put pure garbage on the market. Some even create packaging so the product looks like a drug.
Companies do, and consumers buy it.
Everyone would be better served by insisting ALL supplement companies meet minimum standards and use quality products. Consumers and retailers who feel strongly about the Pharmaceutical influence on the industry should ask vendors if the products are free of any product purchased from, or supplied by, a Pharmaceutical company or a division of Pharmaceutical company. Consumers should insist the stores they patronize don't carry products supplied by a Pharmaceutical company or a division of Pharmaceutical company. But that won't happen, because consumers want what they want and retailers want to stay in business. You can't even buy a vegetarian food product without it having some ingredient from a Pharmaceutical company.