RFK Jr. says he ate goat, not dog, as reported by Vanity Fair

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. railed against the Vanity Fair article that said he ate a dog. He contends it was a goat.

The Vanity Fair story, published Tuesday, said the independent presidential candidate ate a dog in Korea in 2010. Alongside is a photo of a charred animal on a stick, with Mr. Kennedy and an unnamed woman pretending to eat it. The report said a veterinarian told the magazine it was a canine.

“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,” Mr. Kennedy told Chris Cuomo on NewsNation Tuesday. “It’s a goat and it was in Patagonia.”

He said the whole piece was “a dumpster of misinformation” and clarified that the photo was taken while he was on a river trip on the Futaleufu that he took every year.

Mr. Kennedy said goats are “what everybody eats down there.”

The 70-year-old presidential hopeful joked with Mr. Cuomo that he’s a “very adventurous eater [and would] 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,” he said. 

“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,” he said, jokingly referring to himself as “the greatest of all time.”

Mr. Kennedy also bashed the story in an X post, saying Vanity Fair has “joined the ranks of supermarket tabloids.”

“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,” he said. 

“The [Democratic National Committee] media’s garbage pail journalism may distract us from President Biden’s cognitive deficits, but it does little to elevate the national debate or reduce the price of groceries,” he wrote and attached the photo from the article.

The Washington Times reached out to Conde Nast, the media company that owns Vanity Fair, for comment.