The Roman Catholic celebrates the Holy Eucharist in commemoration of the Last Supper in which during the celebration, Catholics believed that bread and wine are transformed into blood and body of Christ. Now. What is the stand of the Catholic Church for eating the blood and body of Christ in the Holy Eucharist?

The question of “are Catholics cannibals due to their view on transubstantiation” question cropped up quite some time ago. The top [answer](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/30327/56226) on this question makes a distinction between substance and accidents. >In other words, if the wine becomes the Blood of Christ, why isn't there hemoglobin in it? > >Aristotelian philosophy made a distinction between what (in modern philosophical jargon) is called "substance" (from Latin substantia, the essence or nature of something) and "accident" (from Latin accidens, something that happens to be true of an entity). Aristotle of course used Greek, but Aquinas used the Latin. The substance of something is what makes it what it is: I am a human being because I am human "in substance"; that is, because I have "humanness". I look the way I do as a human because I have particular accidents—my eyes are a given color, my hair and skin, I'm a given height. Any of those things could change, or could have been different; that would change what I looked like, but not what I am (i.e. human). > >The Catholic teaching on the Eucharist is that during the Eucharistic celebration, the substance of the bread and wine—what they truly are—is changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ. But their accidents—what they look and act like physically—remain the same. So I have a question. I’ve seen many cases of Eucharistic miracles, that is, where traces of real blood are found in the consumed Eucharist. Many people claim this as evidence of transubstantiation. But how does this fit with the substance vs accidents view? Because wouldn’t a Eucharistic miracle be a change in accident, not substance? Beyond that, do proponents of Eucharistic miracles think this happens all the time, or is it a rare occurrence? And if it is a rare occurrence, are these cases cannibalism?

**Does the Catholic Church have any teaching on cannibalism?** I wasn't able to find much about it.

I present first these three following ideas: > Transubstantiation (Latin: transubstantiatio; Greek: μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, "the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ. Source > Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species. Human cannibalism is well documented, both in ancient and in recent times. > Source And, to my understanding Jesus is a human being; at any rate, most (all?) Trinitarians teach that Jesus is fully human (and simultaneously fully God, but it's the human part that matters here). [This includes Catholics](https://www.goodcatholic.com/jesus-is-both-god-and-man-and-why-that-matters/) . Does Transubstantiation mean that Christians are cannibalizing Jesus? Further, what are the general views which the bible advocates for Christians in regards to cannibalism?