Kennedy Korea Dog: ‘Garbage’: RFK Jr says he ate goat in viral photo, not barbequed dog

Robert F Kennedy Jr, independent presidential candidate, has rubbished the unsettling photo showing him taking a bite into a barbequed dog and said it was a goat. He told Fox News that the now viral 2010 photo was taken at a campfire in Patagonia on the Futaleufu River. Kennedy himself shared the photo with a friend who was traveling to Asia recommending a restaurant in Korea.As the photo went viral, speculations were rife that Kennedy ate a dog as the eatery that he recommended had dog on the menu.
According to a Vanity Fair report, the friend thought that the image was insensitive and expressed concern that he was mocking Korean culture.
In 2010, Kennedy was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain. Later in 2012, during his divorce proceedings, he said he might have contracted the parasite during a trip to South Asia.
Facing a volley of allegations, Kennedy said his past included many skeletons in his closet and he is not a church boy but he did not eat a dog. Vanity Fair, however, consulted a veterinarian who said the carcass in the photo appeared to be a dog’s.
“The article is a lot of garbage. The picture that they said is of me eating a dog, it’s actually me eating a goat in Patagonia on a whitewater trip many years ago on the Futaleufu River. They say … they have an expert that has identified that as a dog carcass. It’s just not true,” Kennedy said.
‘Garbage…just not true’
Kennedy said the article claiming that he had a barbeques dog was garbage. “The picture that they said is of me eating a dog, it’s actually me eating a goat in Patagonia on a whitewater trip many years ago on the Futaleufu River. They say…they have an expert that has identified that as a dog carcass. It’s just not true,” he said.

“I’ve said this from the beginning. I am not a church boy. I am not running like that. I said … I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech that I have … so many skeletons in my closet, that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world,” Kennedy said, adding, “Vanity Fair is recycling 30-year-old stories, and I, you know, am not gonna comment on the details of any of them.”
The Vanity Fair article also carries an allegation by Eliza Cooney, a former part-time babysitter, who said she was groped by him in his kitchen when she worked for Kennedy between 1998 and 1999.
“Hey @VanityFair, you know when your veterinary experts call a goat a dog, and your forensic experts say a photo taken in Patagonia was taken in Korea, that you’ve joined the ranks of supermarket tabloids,” Kennedy said. “Keep telling America that up is down if you want. I’ll keep talking about the fact that working families can’t afford houses or groceries because our last two presidents went on a $14 trillion debt joyride, paid for by hard-working Americans.”