Should Animal Welfare Be a Federal or Regional Responsibility?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Who's responsibility is it to make sure animals are well-treated in Atlasia?  Here I am asking not about ecological destruction and endangered species, or public health issues, but about protecting animals from cruelty for their own sake.
 
The Senate has passed legislation such as the Animal Protection Act of 2013.  Because the Constitution does not anywhere explicitly give the Senate power to protect animals from abuse, and some Senators want the regions to be involved in this issue, the Senate decided to pressure the regions to follow certain animal protection policies by calling for diminished federal funds to environmental programs in the regions if laws are not passed that met the criteria.  Is this an acceptable policy?  Should we have a constitutional amendment to allow the Senate to legislate for the entire nation in this area?  Should this be left to the regions?     Or is there another way to divide up this responsibility?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I suppose another possibility would be for the feds to have authority over the treatment of animals in commerce and industry, while leaving the regions responsibility over the treatment of personal pets. 

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The Left Front is opposed to federalism.

[Napoleon]

Both. Its also a local and individual respknsibility.

[President Tyrion]

Whatever results in the "proper" protections, as determined by Tyrion^TM

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ideally it would be done at the regional level for the most part, but we have a large number who are part of the "By any means necessary, as long as it gets done" crowd and thus you probably end up with something more like what Nix describes.

I do think you could delegate more responsibility to the regions for various specifics compared to the present situation.

[Lincoln Republican]

There could be a national standard for animal welfare that is adhered to by all regions.

That way we know there are laws on the books covering this matter across all of Atlasia.

As the regions see fit, they could as well have their laws on the books that are region specific.