I also have many food plots. But i would and do consider them bait. Now don't get me wrong, it is habitat improvement, it is biologically better for the animals, they are more comfortable eating on them compaired to "thrown" bait. But don't tell me that "thrown" bait can't be work. I've dropped alot more sweat with "thrown" bait then on the tractor. Why do I personally consider our foodplots "bait"? Anything I provide to the deer, to entice them to come into, so I can get a shot at them, I consider "bait". And yes, that even goes for lures.