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True, animal studies can alert researchers to potential problems, but working with animals alone can’t give you conclusive proof of the effect in human beings because different species react differently to various foods and chemicals and diseases. Cows and horses can digest grass and hay; humans can’t. Mouse and rat embryos suffer no ill effects when their mothers are given thalidomide, the sedative that’s known to cause deformed fetal limbs when given to pregnant monkeys — and human beings — at the point in pregnancy when limbs are developing.