Abstract: A meat grinder wherein the meat discharging end of the barrel for the rotary feed screw is separably connected with a tubular member having an extension which is remote from the barrel and is provided with a lateral meat evacuating opening. A star-shaped meat tearing or ripping member is installed in the tubular member upstream of the evacuating opening and has a bearing for the rear end portion of a shaft the front end portion of which is connected to a transverse front end wall of the extension. The latter is surrounded by a tubular element which has a lateraly opening and is rotatable relative to the extension to move its opening to a position of greater lesser register or overlap with the opening of the extension and to thus vary the rate of discharge of meat from the tubular member. A disc-shaped baffle is mounted on the shaft adjacent the opening of the extension and is movable to any one of several different positions axially of the shaft.