Cannibalism In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

In the book Life of Pi a young religious boy named Pi is traveling with his family, and many animals from their zoo, from India to Canada. Along the course of the trip, their ship sinks, his entire family dies, and Pi is left on a lifeboat with a few of the zoo animals, including a Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker. Once Pi is finally rescued, he is interrogated to try to discover the cause of the sinking of the ship, but in the interrogation he tells his story of being stuck on a lifeboat with a tiger. However, the interviewers do not believe his story, so Pi tells a different story, replacing the animals with people. At the end of the book, Yann Martel leaves it up to the reader to determine which story was true. The story that Pi provided
Pi was a very religious person, being a practicing Hindu, Muslim, and Christian, so for him to be able to resort to killing someone, eating them, and then telling the interviewers so casually raises some questions. In the Christian religion, one of the basic 10 Commandments is “Thou shalt not kill.” With Pi being so religious, there would be no way he was unaware of this commandment, and it would be very difficult for someone as devote as himself, to abandon his beliefs and break a major command from God, within three days of being stranded on a lifeboat. In addition, when he is telling Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba, the interviewers, the people story he was casual and calm in telling this, but in reality no matter how a person kills another person, whether it be war, car accident, or survival, people typically feel great remorse in doing so, but for Pi to say “I stabbed him in the throat, next to the Adam’s apple. He dropped like a stone. And died.” and later to say “His heart was a struggle - all those tubes connected it. I managed to get it out. It tasted delicious,” makes there little to no chance that this actually happened due to his lack of concern towards his