Gottfried Waldhäusl, a Freedom Party cabinet minister in one of Austria’s state governments, wants to ban the sale of kosher meat to anyone except observant Jews who agree to be registered and placed on a list.

The very idea of creating lists of Jews, especially in a German-speaking country, probably sounds like a horrific idea. But you may be thinking to yourself, hey, it’s not that bad, because the idea of this proposal is just to improve animal welfare. How terrible can that be?