Contentious Objection to a challeneg

Watching season 3 of Top Chef Masters, I was struck by seeing something that I didn't remember in any other season of the show. When Suvir basically contentiously objected to the bugs quickfire and force the judge to kill the protein. Obviously contestants try to nope out of challenges all of the time (see tom and his biscuit cakes), but this felt really different in a way I wouldn't want him penalized. I feel similarly for the alcohol based challeneges when there are recovering alcoholics in the cast.

Just wanted to bring it up, hadn't seen posts about Suvir so I thought I'd start.

Edit: if any mod wants to fix the typo in the title, I won't mind