Several television game shows such as Fear Factor, Survivor and I'm a Celebrity feature segments where contestants must eat live animals including spiders, cockroaches and grubs.

It is prepared extremely quickly, with care not to damage the internal organs, so that the fish can remain alive for thirty minutes.

[5] In 2007, a newspaper reported that a man from south east China claimed that eating live frogs for a month cured his intestinal problems.

In the video, a live frog is seen stabbed alive, stripped of its skin, and its inedible innards removed to be served as fresh sashimi on an iced platter.

[7] Andrew Zimmern of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods ate frog sashimi in seafood restaurant called Asadachi in Shinjuku.

[3] Consuming the beating heart and blood of live snakes has been a reported practice among some locals and tourists in certain parts of Vietnam, particularly Le Mat village in Hanoi.

[14] Sea urchins are prized as a delicacy in many places worldwide (particularly in Japan, France, South Korea, Chile, New Zealand, the Philippines, Italy, Spain, the Mediterranean,[15] and North America)[16] for their briny-flavoured gonads.

A plate is typically held over the bowl to prevent the shrimp from leaping out as they are much more active than when served as Odori ebi.

[20] One example of eating live larvae is the witchetty grub of Aboriginal Australian cuisine, which can be eaten alive and raw or cooked.

[3] Casu marzu is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese, notable for containing live insect larvae.

Casu marzu goes beyond typical fermentation to a stage most would consider decomposition, brought about by the digestive action of the larvae of the cheese fly Piophila casei.

[22][23][24] According to the Talmud, the sixth Noahide Law (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, romanized: Sheva mitzvot B'nei Noach, lit.