RFK Jr. Says He Would Eat ‘Virtually Anything’ With Three Exceptions: ‘I Wouldn’t Eat a Human…’
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed on Tuesday he would eat “virtually anything” after he was accused of eating the barbecued remains of a dog.
During an appearance on NewsNation’s Cuomo, Kennedy protested a Vanity Fair article which accused him of eating a dog in 2010 – the same year a worm was found in his brain.
“They did this story that I ate a dog, and they have a picture of me supposedly eating a dog, and of course it’s not a dog,” he insisted. “They 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 then claimed the photo actually showed him eating a goat in Patagonia during a kayaking trip.
“It’s a goat and it’s in Patagonia, and it’s a river trip that I used to do, on a big white water river called the Futaleufú every year,” he told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo. “A big, you know, kayaking trip where that’s what we ate. That’s what everybody eats down there, is goats.”
Kennedy described the Vanity Fair article as “a dumpster of misinformation,” before declaring:
I am a very adventurous eater, Chris. I think you know about that about me. I’ll eat virtually anything. There’s two things I wouldn’t eat. Well, three. I wouldn’t eat a human, I wouldn’t eat a monkey, and I wouldn’t eat a dog. I think I’d eat anything else, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do those things, so it is a goat and you are what you eat.
According to Vanity Fair, Kennedy sent the 2010 photo – which showed Kennedy and an unidentified woman chomping down on “the barbecued remains of what appears to be a dog” – to a friend last year, along with a joke about Koreans eating dog.
“Kennedy told the person, who was traveling to Asia, that he might enjoy a restaurant in Korea that served dog on the menu, suggesting Kennedy had sampled dog,” wrote Vanity Fair‘s Joe Hagan. “A veterinarian who examined the photograph says the carcass is a canine, pointing to the 13 pairs of ribs, which include the tell-tale ‘floating rib’ found in dogs.”
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