Even though in Italy the quality of average food is much better than the quality of average food in the US, it's possible to get food in the US that is far superior to what we can get in Italy. This sounds confusing, but in Italy, there is no pasture-raised meat - the cows are all crammed into barns or bought abroad from other countries. Fields here are all vineyards or corn, not animals (at least in the north, where I'm living). So while what you buy in the supermarket is probably better than the factory raised stuff in US supermarkets, it's nowhere near the level of what you can find in a Whole Foods or even in the organic section of a supermarket chain.
In fact, my in-laws eat very little meat, because the quality of what they can find in stores is pretty bad. My FIL almost never eats meat, and we all thought it was because he didn't like it. But when they came to visit us in the US he gladly ate meat every day and was shocked at how much better it was.
So in the US, I consume grass-fed local dairy and pasture-raised local meats but while in Italy, everything is corn-fed or factory farmed. It's only when we go to the mountains (the Alps) that we can find good quality eggs and dairy straight from the farmers, but that's not any better than what I get in the U.S.