with milking sheds that are almost completely automated.

And satellite-guided harvesters that cost half a million euros.

Many farmers have tossed in the towel.

In the last ten years, more than eight hundred farms have shut down each month.

That result fewer small farms and larger farms requiring government subsidies.

In 2016, German farmers received subsidies totaling near six and a half billion euros.

In the EU, farm subsidies came to around 55 billion euros, 40 percent of the entire budget.

Most countries worldwide subsidize their agricultural industries

and this sector is very productive,

it feeds 82 million people in Germany,

740 million in Europe,

and it could supply nearly seven and a half billion people worldwide.

More than ever before.

Nowhere in Europe, our groceries as affordable as in Germany.

At discount grocery stores,

a kilo of pork costs about 2 euros as much as a couple of shoelaces.

A liter of milk goes for 42 euro cents.

A kilo of potatoes is 69 cents.

An egg just 8 cents.

Let's stay with eggs for a moment.

They are produced by hens.

Roosters are not profitable.

They have less fat then their female counterparts

so the male chicks are separated at birth, gassed and shredded.

It's efficient but damaging to the farmers image.

In Germany, agribusiness is coming under increasingly strong criticism

that it treats animal like a mere commodity.