RE: baiting
Congratulations! You're the millionth poster to address baiting.......this year!
You've won a bag of corn......and everybody knows that's all you need to kill deer.
You're set!
But to answer your question.....One makes people feel superior to his fellow hunters. The first time I see a corn stalk growing in the wild, indigenously.....I'll change my views on it NOT being an artificial food source (which would define bait, .....wouldn't it?).
The difference in a corn field and baiting is......one guy was nice enough to shell it for the deer. In the case of the cut corn field. Heck.....they BOTH were!