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My mom water baths all of her canned goods and I don't want her to give it to my kids

So my mom had started canning around 2020, which is fine by me. More power to her! However, she only does the water bath. No pressure canning anything anymore. Any veggies she grows in her garden, any meals (like spaghetti or something), and any meat she only does a water bath for a few hours. I don't really agree with her methods, but I can't really do anything about it. Here's the thing, my 2 kids are going over there for the weekend and spending the night (first time in several years). My daughter said something about eating Chicken Alfredo when they're there for dinner, and I would bet money it's going to be made with the canned chicken my mom only water bathed for a few hours. I've done some research on botulism, and while it seems pretty rare, I really don't want to take that risk with my kids. I don't know how to bring this up to her really, she's pretty stubborn and thinks there's nothing wrong with water bathing. Are there any good articles that I could send to her to convince her pressure canning is safer? Preferably nothing from the CDC or any government site. She's VERY anti-government so she wouldn't believe them anyway. I'm going to tell her to please not feed her canned stuff to my kids, and hopefully she'll listen but apparently she's fed it to us before without our knowledge at the time so I'm not sure. Anyways, any advice, articles, or wisdom will be greatly appreciated

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u/sokrchk04007 — 4 days ago