Schweinemord

In 1914, due to World War I food restrictions and rationing, the German bureaucracy instituted a law that made pigs co-eaters with humans to try to preserve supplies. As a result, pigs were massacred in the "Schweinemord" (German: pig massacre) to both make food and preserve grain. However, nine million pigs could not be eaten or preserved so quickly so much of the food went to waste. Furthermore, the chemical industry had turned its focus from things like making fertilizer to wartime production and pigs were the only source of fertilizer so grain production continued to decrease after the Schweinemord.