[Edwina Lee (OP)]

This girl has appeared a lot on the internet for her eating antics, and this one must surely top the lot.
What on earth is the liquid she is using to cook her 'food'   <Puke> ?

[Kryptid]

Hot grease, it seems.

[Bill S]

I wonder if she enjoys eating it as much as she seems to enjoy killing it. 

[evan_au]

She sits well back for the exploding caterpillar.

I wonder how many "takes" are lost because a splatter of hot oil hits her in the face, and she completely loses that slightly anxious smile?

[Edwina Lee (OP)]

I wonder if she enjoys eating it as much as she seems to enjoy killing it. 

I think she loves to eat just about anything because she was brought up to eat anything. That was how societies used to be.
We live in a modern society where we are normally treating people & animal with some respect, where foods are pre-cooked or packaged, and lots of people are evangelizing not to eat animals, so most of us are averse to doing things the primitive way.

I have seen a few Asia travel videos where market stalls have fried creepy crawlies for sale.

[Bill S]

Growing up on a farm in the 1940s I saw plenty of animals killed, and willingly eat the resulting food.  Killing the animals was seen as a necessity that should be carried out with the minimum of suffering, and in a spirit of “respect”.  I have no recollection of anyone apparently revelling in the task.  It was that to which I was referring.

[evan_au]

Caterpillars and bugs are a useful source of protein, and can be literally grown on garbage.
- I have seen claims that they have lower environmental impact than cows, sheep and pigs.
- We in the West might need to get over the "yuck" factor, since they are not an acknowledged part of our modern diet (even though bugs are inevitably caught up in harvesting crops)
- For early ocean explorers, creepie-crawlies in the flour were an additional source of protein...

We might want to find a reduced-fat way of preparing them.