Hawaii history and cannibalism

[TomK]

As a very young child forced to be brought up as a strict catholic, I still found so many things to be disturbing. Forget about confession, but Bullwinkle nailed it:

"[...] The Catholic Church teaches that the substance, or reality, of the bread is changed into that of the body of Christ and the substance of the wine into that of his blood"

In this case, it's a metaphor. A silly one, but that's what it is.

But I still haven't seen a decent justification of how ancient Hawaiians who ate body parts shouldn't be called cannibals.