lol, i'm uncertain as to whether or not this is a joke, since we love seriousface opinion threads now apparently, on topic, i was brought up vegetarian, never eaten meat, and yes before someone asks, that means i've never tasted bacon! I know, not what you expect is it?!
I'm a healthy weight, good average height, no obvious mineral deficiencies and a massive dong.
there really are no obvious health benefits or fall backs to either if you live and eat healthily, as a biology student we did some work on the subject of diets and you literally cannot argue against that at all, everyone will shout at you all sorts of crap about vegetarians not getting any minerals because it's all in meat, but you easily get the same nutrition from a GOOD vegetarian diet, conversely people will say that if you eat meat you will of course be obese immediately...
Lifestyle plays a larger role really