I have recently watched a documentary about human cannibalism. It is actually practiced in New Guinea and parts of the Solomon Islands. 
Really?  I thought that cannibalism had ceased long ago.  That is very interesting.
Yeah, I honestly find it a lttle disturbing that people would practice cannibalism, which is the practice of eating the flesh or internal organs of another human being  
Are there no laws in these areas that prevent this from happening?  It seems very 3rd world.
There has actually never been evidence that cannibalism is socially acceptable anywhere in the world, but I am sure that there are people who practice it due to unforeseen circumstances and for the sake of survival
Wasn't the Donner family the group of early settlers travelling out West who ended up practicing cannibalism for survival?
Donner Party
The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party) was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating the bodies of those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness.
The Donner Party departed Missouri on the Oregon Trail in the spring of 1846, behind many other pioneer families who were attempting to
discredited theory of humorism for cannibalism was that it came about within a black acrimonious humor, which, being lodged in the linings of the ventricle, produced the voracity for human flesh.
Medical aspects.
A well-known case of mortuary cannibalism is that of the Fore tribe in New Guinea, which resulted in the spread of the prion disease kuru. Although the Fore's mortuary cannibalism was well documented, the practice had ceased before the cause of the disease was recognized. However, some scholars argue that although post