blah, blah, blah, Bob. "Rhetoric" doth not = "fact". Your rhetoric is popular in most deer hunting circles.....but the FACT remains.....Corn and soy beans are not indigenous plants where you see them planted in fields. That makes them "artificial" to that area. Shelled corn doesn't grow out of the ground into a pile....so that makes it artificial, too.

Your artificial corn field might be bigger than the artiicial bait pile......but they're both what? YES!! Artificial!

Leave the cover aspect out of it. Leave the "patterning" thing out of it. Let's get down to basics. They are both an artificially introduced food source.