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This sentence presents battery-cage confinement as if it describes laying hens in general today. That is not correct.

• The European Commission states that non-enriched cage systems have been prohibited since 1 January 2012 in the EU, and that the systems still in use there include enriched cages and alternative systems where hens can move freely.
• In the United States, USDA's Economic Research Service reports that the cage-free flock made up 38% of the U.S. laying flock in June 2023, and that the share has been rising as states and buyers move away from caged systems.

So while severe confinement in conventional cages is real and still exists in some places, the blanket statement that laying hens spend their entire lives in battery cages is factually too broad.

"Near-boiling" is inaccurate here.

In poultry processing, scalding water is typically well below the boiling point of water:

• An EPA poultry-slaughtering background document describes soft scald at about 50°C (122°F).
• University of Minnesota Extension advises scalding young birds at 125–130°F and older birds near 140°F.
• ScienceDirect's poultry-processing overview similarly says scald temperatures generally range from 50 to 63°C.

Those temperatures are very hot and can still cause severe injury or death, but they are not near boiling (100°C / 212°F).