RE: Should all states be able to bait?
Food baiting, no, scent luring, yes. If you plant food plots large enough to increase the carrying capacity of a herd(s), then it should be legal, since in virtue you would be only harvesting game that you produced, but merely throwing out feeders to bring game for easy feed to one area should not be. I leave half a header of milo occasionally, and usually don' t take a third cutting on alfalfa (which wouldn' t have yeilded much anyway) in certain patches that serve as regular winter food plots, but I don' t necessarily call it baiting, it' s more feeding/managing the deer herd than bringing deer in for an easy hunt. In fact, I seldom hunt those patches, since I usually have cattle or horses on the neighboring 80' s, but I do hunt areas nearby that I know to be paths to those plots.