In the technical sense, Idon’t agree with your claim that “human [produced] machines aren’t anywhere near close to being as efficient as biological machines”. P

In the technical sense, Idon’t agree with your claim that “human [produced] machines aren’t anywhere near close to being as efficient as biological machines”. Perhaps you meant that sometimes the least costly way of performing work for some task involves utilizing a biological process. On the other, hand I do agree that we should stop killing whales (and perhaps there is now another reason to stop as well).