goes uneaten. and vegetables can be thrown away and discarded because it's simply an odd shape. we talked to one farmer who's found a way to deal with this issue. >> in orange county, new york, the ground is suited for growing onions. not all make it out of the fields. >> 30% of american food goes uneaten. it's a problem that starts long before you get to the dining room table. here at the farm, this onion is big enough to make it onto a super market shelf. this isn't even though it's perfectly edible. >> chris' family has been farming this land four generatio generations. >> it has to make the two inch minister standard. if it doesn't make the minimum, it's a dropout, pickle size onion. >> what happens then? >> you have to look for secondary markets. at times if liit's a drought ye, you have a hard time moving them. people in the past have dumped them. >> a lot of local produce ends up in the city's market. >> we're going to go out and gauge the farmers and try to get as much salvageable food. >>