Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dismissed allegations he once feasted on a dog as part of “a dumpster of misinformation” — saying he would eat “virtually anything” except a dog, monkey or human.
The independent presidential candidate railed against the extensive reporting by Vanity Fair, which suggested that an unsettling photo of him posing with a charred four-legged animal was him of eating a pooch in Korea in 2010 — the year he was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain.
“And of course it’s not a dog … it’s a goat in Patagonia,” he told NewsNation’s “Cuomo” late Tuesday.
“I am a very adventurous eater … I’ll eat virtually anything,” the 70-year-old presidential hopeful said.
“Thereâs two things I wouldnât eat — well, three. I wouldnât eat a human, I wouldnât eat a monkey, and I wouldnât eat a dog.
“I think Iâd eat anything else, but I just couldnât bring myself to do those things, so it is a goat and you are what you eat,” he said, jokingly referring to the acronym for “greatest of all time.”
The bizarre admission came after the magazine reported Kennedy had texted the photo to a friend who was traveling to Asia last year and suggested that the pal would enjoy a restaurant in Korea that had dogs on the menu â raising speculation the 2024 candidate had once eaten one himself.
A veterinarian who examined the snap noted the carcass has 13 pairs of ribs â including a tell-tale âfloating ribâ that suggests it is in fact a canine, the outlet reported.
âThey said I was eating a dog in Korea and that they had checked with experts, metadata experts, and identified it as Korea and checked with veterinarians who validated that it was a dog,” Kennedy said, dismissing the “whole article as a dumpster of misinformation.”
âItâs a goat and itâs in Patagonia, and itâs a river trip that I used to do, on a big white water river called the Futaleufú every year,â he said, accusing Vanity Fair of being out to “destroy” him.
âThatâs what everybody eats down there, is goats.â
Vanity Fair said the photo was taken in 2010 â the same year Kennedy was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain.
During his 2012 divorce proceedings, the 70-year-old had claimed he may have contracted the parasite during a trip to South Asia.
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