This interminable hand-wringing is wholly hypocritical and self serving; and springs up on Terraforums with the periodicity and enjoyment of an incipient cold sore.
It is one thing to uproot a plant in its entirety and quite another to take an occasional seed pod. If you don't like a product, simply don't purchase it. Easy-peasy. When the f*ck did we become a country of mealy mouth petty informants, ratting out some piss-poor guy in SE Asia, trying to make a few bucks?
Over the years, I have given away or sold more tissue cultured plants, based upon a couple dozen air-mailed seeds, collected from the wild, personally or otherwise, than I can readily count -- statistically, far more plants, in orders of magnitude, than would have survived, had those same seeds simply dropped to the ground.
One site in Luzon, where I obtained seed some years ago, is now a massive golf resort and condo complex, catering to the Hong Kong Chinese; and those forests and plants no longer exist at all.
This plant growing community and allied sites have demanded more and more exotic species in recent years (some of whom PM me on a regular basis, looking for plants, and have, whiningly, contributed to this very thread; you know who you are); and those seed sellers, overseas, are there to supply that demand. Were it not for that pre-existing market, the sellers would simply go back to selling poorly-silk-screened t-shirts with gibberish English phrases that I have seen throughout SE Asia for decades.
If you believe, for a millisecond, that any of those exotic nurseries overseas -- many of whom here, sing their continual praises on this forum, and owe the bulk of their collections to them -- exclusively collect their plant materials in some "morally acceptable" above-board manner, I have an attractive 1937 suspension bridge for sale, painted in a striking International Orange, within a few miles of me, available at a most reasonable price . . .