After the Netherland’s Parliament passed a bill Tuesday banning the slaughter of livestock without stunning, Orthodox Jews are alarmed. If enforced, the bill, which must still pass the senate, removes an exemption that allows orthodox Dutch Jews to slaughter animals according to Jewish ritual.

Netherland's Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said the exemption in the law stipulated “that we must prove the animal slaughtered the Jewish way suffers less or the same as with stunning, but this absolutely impossible to prove. You can’t ask the animal how it feels afterwards. Nobody can prove this.”

Rabbi Jacobs said he's been inundated with calls from many in the Jewish community concerned about the ban's ramifications. “Old people are scared and young people who are just married are calling me to ask if they should stay here, today it is the schechita and tomorrow what, circumcision? People are afraid.”

Rabbi Jacobs said Jews are alarmed as this recalls the "the very first law made by the Germans in Holland was the banning of schechita or the Jewish way of slaughtering animals.

“Holland is a sophisticated country and other countries look to Holland as an example, and we are afraid of the domino affect, that other countries will follow. This is the reason so many countries are watching the Netherlands today, ” he said.