Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been linked to numerous bizarre headlines - including that a doctor once told him he had a worm in his brain but things just got a lot weirder.

A Vanity Fair article published Tuesday contained an allegation that the independent presidential candidate once ate a barbecued dog.

The article featured a picture that Kennedy an environmental lawyer -had sent to a friend in 2010, which showed him holding a crisp carcass of an animal and posing with an unidentified woman.

Vanity Fair had a veterinarian examine the picture, and the vet told the outlet it was likely a canine carcass based on the number of ribs seen in the photo.

The outlet added that Kennedy had told his friend who was traveling in Asia that he might like a restaurant that had dogs on the menu.

Kennedy said: "The picture that they said is of me eating a dog it's actually me eating a goat in Patagonia on a white-water trip many years ago on the Futaleufú River."

He added that the vet's assessment that the carcass was a dog was "just not true."