Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has denied eating dog abroad (Picture: Getty Images)
A US presidential candidate is being roasted for appearing to eat barbecued dog in a newly surfaced photograph.
Independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. seems to hold an animal carcass with a metal stake through it and has his mouth open as if to take a bite, in the photo supposedly taken in 2010 and obtained by Vanity Fair.
He allegedly texted the photo, in which he stands next to an unknown woman, to a friend last year.
‘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,’ reported the magazine on Tuesday.
A veterinarian said the carcass appeared to belong to a dog, based on 13 pairs of ribs including a ‘floating’ one.
Kennedy has called the report ‘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,’ Kennedy told the Breaking Points political podcast.
‘They say … they have an expert that has identified that as a dog carcass. It’s just not true.’
Kennedy went on to share the image on X (formerly Twitter) and address Vanity Fair directly.
‘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,’ he wrote.
‘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.’
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