Our Daily Bread
The absence of narration gives this documentary unusual power. Unlike Fast Food Nation or An Inconvenient truth, or Oversize Me, Our Daily Bread does not editorialize or stake out a political position. It depicts what processes (mass chicken pens; machinery for eviscerating cows and pigs, etc.) go into our daily meals. Since shots were taken in several European countries, the film is neutral... Some might find the slaughter of animals cruel--several children at the Aero huddled close to their mother. My own view was that the incredible ingenuity of mankind borne out of necessity has inven ted specialized machinery unimaginable to me, really, to take on every specific task... Soon human beings might be replaced by robots who take on the job, say, of stunning and killing the cows before they are hooked to the apparatus thjat transports them down the disassembly line.
Albert Sonnenfeld