Partly from inference and in this context in a UC Berkeley News article, it appears to mean providing, perhaps unwittingly, for something ruthless or contemptible (not that snakes are).

"Our jobs (teaching journalism) seem to be to fatten frogs for the snakes," says Drummond, noting the young reporters being hired just out of school by "multi-national, money-making machines."

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